344 WISCONSIN AGRICULTUEE. 



1st. Best blood stallions, four years old and over, having been 

 kept for stock the past season in this State. The committee to 

 require satisfactory proof of pedigree. 



2d. Morgan horses. For the best stallion, kept for stock the 

 past season in this State, 4 years old and over. 



3d. Black Hawk horses. The best stallion kept for stock the 

 past season in this State, 4 years old and over. 



4th. Carriage horses. For the best and second best pair 

 matched carriage horses, also for the best and second best single 

 horse ; all to be exhibited in harness. 



5th. Horses for all work. For the best and second best stal- 

 lion for all work, kept for stock the past season, within this State, 

 4 years old and over. 



Best and second best mares, 4 years old and over. 



Best and second best pair of matched horses for all work. 



The only horses among the first class (blood stallions) exhibi- 

 ted to your committee were two, one of which was an excellent 

 six year old bay horse, entered by E. H. Ball & Co., of East 

 Troy. The other was exhibited by C. I Bullock, Esq., of Sauk 

 City, and is five years old, bright bay, and in nearly all respects 

 a good horse, being 16 hands high, with good limbs, fine action 

 and style, but the committee feel compelled by their instructions 

 to withold from both of these horses premiums, for the reason 

 that there was no satisfactory proof that they were thorough 

 bred horses, and there was nothing in their appearance to uner- 

 ringly indicate it. In justice, however, we would say that they 

 are both fine horses, and well calculated to improve our stock, 

 as they possess the requisites of good carriage horses. 



Tliere were but two Morgan horses exhibited — one by F. M. 

 Wheeler, Esq., of Springvale, in Fond du Lac county ; the other, 

 by Horace Chase, Esq., of Milwaukee. Both of these horses, 

 judging from their pedigree, are probably as pure blood Mor- 

 gans as can be found at this time — they are both small, being 

 about 14 hands high, very closely formed, appear to have suffi- 

 cient endurance and good action, but not a sufficient size for sty- 

 lish carriage horses. A majority of the committee awarded the 

 1st premium to Mr. Wheeler, and the 2d premium to Mr. Chase, 



