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Commiitee on Swine. 



iJoha Davis, of Worcester, Chairman ; John Gleason, jr. of 

 Worcester ; Charles Brigham, of Grafton. 



THE Committee upon Swine having attended to the service assig;ned 

 them, submit the following Report : — 



They are much gratified in being able to state that they found the 

 exhibition of this kind of animal furnishing strong proofs of improve- 

 ment. They do not recollect having seen at any former Show so many 

 or so valuable swine. The number of boars found in the pens were 

 seven ; and the Committee have awarded to Capt. Lewis Bigelow, of 

 Worcester, the first premium, of $7, for a fine animal of his, which they 

 understand is of the Bedford breed, descended from the stock of Dr. 

 Fiske, and was decidedly superior to any other exhibited. 



The second premium the Committee are of opinion (if awarded at all) 

 should be given for an animal entered by Maj. Samuel Graves, but be- 

 longing to the town of Worcester, and raised upon the farm on which the 

 poor of the town are supported. As two of the Committee, however, 

 are inhabitants of Worcester, they have declined assigning this premium 

 to the town, and have not awarded it to any other competitor, because 

 the third member of the Committee was decidedly in favour of giving 

 it to the town. The Committee found in the pens nine breeding sows, 

 six of which were ofiered for premium ; and they have awarded the first 

 premium, of $6, to Messrs. Ward & Rice, of Worcester ; and the sec6nd, 

 of $4, to Mr. Nathaniel Stowell, of Worcester. 



The Committee would here observe, that the duty assigned them was 

 difficult, because all the animals of this description are superior, and in 

 almost any other competition than that to which they were subjected 

 would have carried premiums. Those entered by Mr. John F. Clark, 

 Mr. Nahum Willington, Mr. Clark Whittemore, and Mr. William Eaton, 

 jun. all of Worcester, particularly attracted the attention of the Com- 

 mittee, either on account of their obvious superiority to most animals of 

 their kind, or on account of the remarkable progeny which surrounded 

 them ; and the Committee only regretted that they had it not in their 

 power to reward more fully a competition so well sustained. 



The Committee found seven persons competitors for the premium of $4 

 upon pigs, and they have awarded it to Messrs. \^'ard & R-ice, of Wor- 

 cester, not however without some doubts as to whose lot the preference 

 should be given. The pigs offered were, without exception, such as the 

 Committee considered as furnishing strong proofs of improvement in the 

 breed of swine. Those of Mr. Dudley, of Sutton, and Mr. Stowell, of 

 Worcester, very justly rendered the claim of Messrs. Ward & Rice to 

 the premium doubtful. 



These were all the premiums the Committee had it in their power to 

 award ; but they cannot pass from this subject without particularly no- 

 ticing the swine oifered for Exhibition only^ by the Hon. Oliver Fiske and 

 Stephen Salisbury, Esq. of ^^'D^cester. The sow, barrow, and pig be- 

 longing to the former gentleman, and the sow and pigs belonging to the 

 latter, did not fail of attracting the particular attention of the Committee ; 

 and they take the liberty to observe that they have rarely, if ever, seen 

 so fine an exhibition of animals of this kind. Those of Dr. Fiske fully 

 ai\stained the account he has given of them in the New-England Farmer; 

 and it is some proof of the good qualities of this breed, that the swine of 

 Messrs. W^ard & Rice, and Mr. Stowell, as well as Capt. Bigeiow's, are 

 from the stock of Dr. Fiske. Mr. Salisbury's sow and pigs, which are said- 

 to be a cross of the same breed, were not excelled by auy at tbe Show. 



