14 REPORTS OK COMMITTEES. 



BOARS, LESS THAN ONE YEAR OLD. 



j F. Brown, ist premium, $i 50 



G. W. Goddard, 2iid prem., i 00 



BREEDING SOWS. 



J, F. Brown, ist premium, $4 00 



W. K. Proctor, 2d prem., 2 00 



W. A. CARLETON, /or the Committee. 



SHEEP. 



The committee appointed to award premiums on Sheep 

 submit the following report : 



It gave your committee great pleasure to see more interest 

 manifested in this animal ; this is as it should be. 



A few years ago the cry went out that we could not grow 

 sheep in New England, that this section was too thickly settled, 

 and that it was impossible for the New England farmer to com- 

 pete successfully with the ranchman of the far West. But this, 

 in a great measure, is changed, and we have to-day, thousands 

 of acres of land that would be improved by sheep-raising, and 

 hundreds of homes that might be made more attractive by the 

 growth of this animal. Our markets, too,. would be better sup- 

 plied with that delicate joint which is now rather a rarity, but 

 which should take the place, on every poor man's table, of the 

 pork which is now his almost unvaried food. 



There is no industry upon which a small farmer can better 

 enter than sheep husbandry, inasmuch as the capital required to 

 start in the business need be but small, and the increase is 

 remarkably rapid. 



Many a small farmer has a worn-out pasture, or, as is apt 

 to be the case with all our jjastures, one over-run with brush ; 

 such a man, for a few dollars, could stock his little farm, and we 



