72 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



No. 6. — Oxen, grade Ayrshire, 6 years old, weight, 3,570 lbs., owned by 



Isaac Osgood, Newton Lower Falls. 

 7. — Oxen, native, 5 years old, owned by Rufus King, Sutton. 

 8. — Steers, native, 3 years old, owned by Rufus King, Sutton. 

 9. — Oxen, 4 years old, weight, 2,340 lbs., owned by Calvin D. Nourse, 



Shrewsbury. 

 10. — Oxen, half Devon, 6 years old, owned by William Buckminster, 



Framingham. 

 11. — Oxen, grade Devon and native, 5 years old, weight, 3,200 lbs., 



owned by G. C. Sanborne, Westborough. 

 12. — Oxen, native, 6 years old, weight, 3,600 lbs., owned by Anson 



Warren, Westborough. 

 13. — Oxen, grade Devon, 4 years old, weighed 2,850 lbs., owned by 



Nathan B. Reed, Princeton. 

 14. — Oxen, one pair, 7 years old, weighed 3,030 lbs., owned by John B. 



Moore, Concord. 

 15. — Oxen, one pair, 4 years old, owned by Horace Sheldon, Wilmington. 

 16. — Steers, one pair, 1 year old, weighed 2,060 lbs., owned by Henry 



Johnson, Millbury. 

 17. — Steers, one pair, 3 years old, weighed 3,350 lbs., owned by S. W. 



Buffum, Winchester, N. H. 

 18, — Steers, one pair, 1 year old, weighed 1,800 lbs., owned by S. W. 



BufFum, Winchester, N. H. 

 19. — Steers, one pair, 3 years old, owned by Nathaniel Dodge, Sutton. 

 20. — Oxen, one pair, 4 years old, owned by Nathaniel Dodge, Sutton. 

 21. — Oxen, one pair, 4 years old, owned by T. J. Pinkham, Chelmsford. 

 22. — Steers, one pair, 1 year old, owned by George B. Loring, Salem. 

 23. — Oxen, one pair, 4 years old, owned by L. Maynard, Bradford. 



The committee on working oxen and steers, consisting of 

 Harvey Dodge, of Sutton; Aaron D. Weld, of Roxbury ; Asa 

 G. Sheldon, of Wilmington ; I. Osgood Loring, of North Ando- 

 ver, and P. P. Severance, of Greenfield, made the following 



E E P O R T : 



At an early hour on Tuesday, the first day of the exhibition, your 

 committee, as above, all reported themselves as ready and anxious to 

 serve, to the best of their ability, in testing the qualities of 23 yoke 

 of oxen and steers which had been duly entered for their inspection. 

 No individual member of this committee ever intimated that he wished 

 to be released from working on this committee, as is too often the 

 case, but each and every one of them seemed willing and anxious to 

 devote their time patiently and earnestly to the work, which lasted 

 nearly two days, in examining the oxen in the ring, on the cart and in 



