26 ON SWINE. 



Your Committee regret their not being able to award a premium 

 to Mr. Stroncr, as all the teams did their work Avell enough to deserve 



one. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JEREMIAH COLEMAN, 

 S. C. PITMAN, 

 SETII KIMBALL, 

 FREDERIC MITCHELL, 

 JOHN NORTHEND. 



Lynn, October 1st, 1846. 



ON SWINE. 



The Committee on Swine Report: 



That but few animals of this description were exhibited, and that 

 none of them came within the rules of the Society, so as to be enti- 

 tled to a premium. The Society offers premiums for boars, breeding 

 sows, and litters of weaned pigs, of not less than four in number, 

 from four to six months old. Six swine were entered by Elias Clough, 

 of the Lynn Poor Farm, which were purchased from a drove ten 

 months since, and were probably over a year old at the time of ex- 

 hibition. They were well-proportioned, thrifty animals, and would 

 weigh over 400 lbs. each. A finer lot could not, perhaps, be pro- 

 duced from any pen in the county ; but though of one litter, they 

 were not a litter of weaned pigs less than six months old. Joseph 

 Horton, of Ipswich, presented a plump pig, nearly four months old, 

 which should have been accompanied by at least three mates, in order 

 to claim the Society's premium. A very fat Berkshire hog, weighing 

 525 lbs., was exhibited by Nathaniel G. Harris, of Lynn, which 

 commended himself to the favorable opinion of the Committee, in all 

 respects save his breed, but for which they had no authority to bestow 

 a premium, as the Society offers none for a fat hog, as such. Four 

 Leicester pigs,.and a sow and a boar of the same breed, were entered 

 for exhibition only, by Samuel C. Pitman, of Lynn, of which the 

 two latter were thrifty and handsome animals. 



The Committee were at a loss to account for the comparatively 



