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speed. Your committee further beg leave to state that, behev- 

 ing it is one of the objects of the society to enconrage the rais- 

 ing of good breeds of horses, for all the various purposes of 

 usefulness, but not to encourage the keeping of horses for the 

 turf, they would recommend the following rules with regard 

 to the entry of trotting or travelling horses, hereafter. 



1st. No horse shall be entered that has been driven for 

 money. 



2nd. No horse shall be driven by a professional turf-rider or 

 trainer of horses. 



By establishing these rules your committee are of the opinion 

 that racing for money will be discountenanced, and that more 

 entries will be made by persons now discouraged from fear of 

 competing with professional turf-ridere. 



Charles G. Davis, Chairman. 



SHEEP 



HAMPDEN. 



From the Report of the Commitlee. 



Never since the formation of the society, has there been so 

 fine a display of sheep, both in numbers and quality, as was 

 found on the present occasion. The number included six flocks, 

 four single bucks, and twenty-three single ewes — in all, seventy- 

 eight. The statements of some of the competing parties, here- 

 with submitted, will convince unbiased minds that there is no 

 stock more productive to the farmer than sheep of desirable 

 blood. 



T. J. Shepard, Chairman. 



