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XII. ON HORSES. 



The Commitlee on Horses have attended to the duty assigned 

 them, and ask leave to submit the following Report — 



The number of horses offered for premium was four. One 

 colt, two years old, was also offered, but not for a premium, as 

 his ag;e was not such as to bring him within the rules of the So- 

 ciety. This was a very fine animal. With respect to the other 

 four, although two of ihem were good, and one very promising, 

 yet the Committee, after a full examination, and a desire to do 

 all, that might be justified, to encourage the raising of horses, 

 have been reluctantly brought to the unanimous opinion, that 

 the best interests of the Society did not require that any pre- 

 mium should be awarded. And they were led to this result, 

 rather by general reasons of expediency, and a regard for the 

 best interests as well of the Society as of applicants themselves, 

 than by any opinion unfavourable to the particular animals 

 offered. The Committee did not think that the applicants 

 brought themselves so within the rules established by the Sociefy 

 as to make it expedient or proper to recommend that a premium 

 should be awarded to either of them. 



HUBBARD EMERSON,^ 

 CALEB LOWE, [ ^ . 



J. B. WINCHESTER, f ^"^^^t^^^- 

 N. J. LORD, J 



Danvers, Sept. 28, 1836. 



