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from Peter Eden, one of the most celebrated prize takers and 

 breeders in England. ]\Ir. Eden refused Mr. Motley's offer of 

 thirty guineas, or $150 gold for any one of the soav pigs of the 

 same litter, eight weeks old. 



These Englisli white pigs, as the Committee are doubtless 

 siware, are bred from Suffolk, Yorkshire, and others of tlie 

 ^est English breeds, to combine their excellencies, and {:ro- 

 <luce a pig of good size, very small proportion of offal, small 

 l)ones, and great tendency to fatten. They have been bred 

 long enough to make a distinct breed, and are much prized in 

 England. 



This boar is fed but once a day, from the lea\ings of the 

 liouse. 



I also enter for the Society's premium, for the best litter of 

 - weaned pigs, nine pigs two and a half months old, from the 

 imported Yorkshire sow, " Meg Merrilies ", by my imported 

 English wliite boar, " Captain Jinks." 



SHEEP 



The Committee award to 



D. F. Appleton, best flock, first, diploma and $8. 



IFrancis Dane, second, $5. 



B. D. Appleton, best buck, diploma and $G. 



X). F. Appleton, lambs, $3. 



Committee — D. Bradstreet, 11. Jaques, X. ^V. Moody 



POULTKY. 



Your Committee are pleased to be able to report that the 

 display of poultry at the recent fair, was very fine ; better in 

 .•quality than was ever before exhibited at any fair in Essex 



