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BROOD MARES. 



The Committee appointed by the Essex Agricultural Society 

 to examine and report upon Brood Mares at their Annual Fair, 

 held at Gloucester on Sept. 24tli and 25th, having attended to 

 that duty, submit the following report : 



Your Committee consisted of the following named gentle- 

 men : — 0. S. Butler, Dr. W. Cogswell, Asa T. Newhall, Joseph 

 B. Spiller, Z. C. Wardwell, all of whom reported themselves 

 promptly at the hour named, except Mr. Spiller. Of Brood 

 Mares there were four entries by the following named persons : 

 Francis Dane of Hamilton, Charles B. Sargent of Newbury- 

 port, Moses K. Noyes of Newbury, and William Jones of 

 Gloucester. Neither of the above named persons, except Mr. 

 Francis Dane, fully complied with the requirements of the 

 society in making their entries. 



On proceeding to the Fair Grounds, your Committee made 

 diligent search for brood mares, and after wandering up 

 and down the line of cattle-pens they found three mares with 

 their foals by their sides, and before leaving the grounds your 

 Committee found a brown mare with her foal, but were unable 

 to ascertain by whom she was entered, as there was neither 

 card or mark upon horse, colt or pen ; and as no keeper or 

 owner was present to give us any information, and as the horse 

 could not speak for herself, she was left in solitude and silence. 

 It is possible that she belonged to Mr. Jones, of Gloucester. 



The first horse examined was Mr. Dane's Percheron mare 

 Empress. She is a noble specimen of the Percheron horse and 

 is described as follows : — She was imported from Percheron, 

 France, is about ten years old, is perfectly sound, and weighs 

 about twelve hundred pounds. 



Your Committee are of the opinion that the society ought to 

 encourage the importation and propagation of this breed of 

 horses into Essex County, as a draft horse. For all farm 

 purposes the Percheron has no superior and hardly an equal. 

 The Clyde horse is his only competitor. Every farmer must 

 see, that if one horse will do the work of two, at the same 

 relative cost of purchase and keeping, (which is true of the 



