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" A fine lot of Merinos was exhibited, from New York, and offered for 

 sale, and each succeeding Annual Fair will exhibit an increased interest 

 in this subject. Wisconsin can be the market for the best breeds, to 

 western wool-growers, if they turn their attention and enterprize to it." 



SWINE.— XO. OF EXTEIES. IG. 



Judge. — S. M. Booth, Milwaukee, Chairman. 



Best boar one year old, and under two years ; Talbot C. Dousman, Ot- 

 tawa. $3. 



Second best boar one year old, and under two years (grass breed) ; Joseph. 

 Carpenter, Waukesha. Youatt on the Pig. 



Best boar six months, and under one year, (Suffolk) ; S. F. Field, East 

 Troy. Transactions. 



Best breeding sow two years old and over ; William Knight, Alto. $5. 



Second best breeding sow two years old and over ; F. H. Westover, Mil- 

 waukee. Transactions. 



Best sow six months, and under one year, (Suffolk) ; S. B. Edwards, 

 East Troy. Transactions. 



Second best sow six months, and under one year ; James T. Walklin, 

 Eagle Centre. $ 1 . 



Best lot of pigs, not less than five, under ten months ; Benjamin Betty's, 

 Mequon. Transactions. 



Joseph Carpenter's Statement. 



*' Grass-breed hogs have been raised in this part of the country for 

 the last eight years. They are peaceful, quiet and lazy hogs, not inclined 

 to get into mischief ; and if a thoughtless child happens to leave the 

 gate unfastened, allowing them to stray away, it is no more trouble to 

 get them back than a pet horse. They are ready for the butcher at any- 

 time after they are six weeks old, being always fat ; at one year of age, 

 weighing from one hundred to two hundred pounds. We milk six cows ; 

 the milk, with a little meal added, makes excellent feed for young pork- 

 ers. When young pigs first leave the sow, if in the winter, we take two 

 bushels of corn and one of oats, and have them ground together into fine 

 meal, and then make it into mush, and feed them with it. When we are 

 short of milk, we take the same provender, pour on boiling water, and 



