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reasons in detail,) that where young cattle can be kept in Es- 

 sex county with a profit of one per cent., and cows, kept for 

 butter, yield six per cent., sheep will as readily give ten per 

 cent, profit. 



Respectfully thine, 



Nathan Page. 



Swine. 



The entries for premium, this year, have been more numer- 

 ous than in years past, — a fine exhibition of pigs and porkers 

 has been made in Old Essex. There was diversity of size, not 

 to say of form and feature, and the musical sounds from the 

 various enclosures, were of every variety of intonation, from 

 the shrill squeal of early infancy, to the grum grunt of mature 

 hoghood ; and your committee feel that they would do marked 

 injustice to the swinish judgment of the competitors for the 

 premiums, should they speak in other than terms of praise of 

 all the delegates from hogdom, to which they were introduced. 



There were seven boars offered for premium, all of which 

 were very fine animals, to any two of which the committee 

 would cheerfully have awarded the prizes of the society, had 

 not others of superior qualities, in their judgment, been offered. 



The committee award to Ezra B. Welch, of Haverhill, the 

 first premium, for the best boar, of . . . $5 00 



To Charles Uowell, of Salisbury, the second premium, 



of 3 00 



E. Chase, of Amesbury ; Josiah Crosby, of Andover ; Ben- 

 jamin Atkinson, of Amesbury ; and F. Boyden, of Topsfield, 

 each presented fine specimens of boars, — and your committee 

 believe that animals of less worth have not unfrequently, herje- 

 tofore, received the prizes of the society. 



William H. Balch, of Topsfield, presented a boar pig of the 

 Suffolk breed, the most beautiful animal upon the ground, and 

 the committee regret that they do not have it in their power 

 to award him a premium. 



There were seven breeding sows offered for premiums. 



