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premiums your Committee were prepared, in some degree as to their duty. It 

 is hard, and we think quite unfair, to compel those farmers raising stock for farm 

 on draft work to compete directly with the best road or track stock, which we all 

 know command the most money, and if we act our honest judgment as this Com- 

 mitttee, will take the most siJbons. Now to encourage each class of competitors 

 we most earnestly recommend this society to offer two distinct classes of premi- 

 ums of equal valffe for the better encouragement of each class of competitors. It 

 is a well known fact that a nice pair of family or Carriage horses are very difficult 

 to obtain. Solid colors, bay, dark points, well "put up," horses, weighing from 

 1000 to 1200 pounds each, will to-day command round prices, and may be pro- 

 duced if farmers will set themselves to the work in earnest. This fact is verified 

 by looking at what has been accomplished in the last few years in this county, 

 in the way of breeding, training, and development of the class of "trotters" now 

 before the public, and also the large number of road horses. Now let the farmers 

 fill up the remrinlng classes of Carriage, Farm and Draft horses, all of which are 

 ever in good demand. Respectfully submitted Heney L. Smith. 



Entries, 34. Stallions, 4 ; Three-years-old Colts, 13 ; Two-years. old Colts, 11 ; 



Yearling Colts, 5. The Committee on Animals, 18th Division, award as follows : 



Best Stallion, E. L. Day, Otis, $15 



2d do., Dr. Samuel Camp, Great Barrington, 10 



Best three-year-old Colt, Edwin Hurlbut, Great Barrington, 5 



2d do., E. Best, Egremont, 4 



3d do., Edwin A. Bassett, Alford, 3 



4th do., N. B. Curtis, Stockbridge, 2 



Best two-year-old Colt, Lester T. Osborne, Alford, 4 



2d do., T. S. Baldwin, Egremont, 3 



3d do., B. K, Dunlap, Egremont, 2 



Best Yearling Colt, Charles H. Stedman, Tryingham, 3 



2d do., Arthur M. Heuins, Sheffield, 2 



3d do., H. W. Canfleld, Sheffield, 1 



HENRY L. SMITH, i 



W. S. FERRIS, V Committee. 

 ROBERT A, POTTS, 



ANIMALS.— Nineteenth Division. 



Entries, 11. Four-year-old Horses, 6 : Running Horses, />. The Committee 

 on Animals, Nineteenth Division, award as follows ; 



Best Horse four-year-old, and under, L. B, Brusie, Great Barrington, S7 



2d do., William Gross, Lee, 5 



3d do., Henry R. Spurr, Sheffield, 3 



Best Running Horse, O. F. Brusie, Great Barrington, 10 



2d do., O. J. Brusie, Great Barrington, 5 



JOHN F. SARIN, ) 



J. J. HART, [ Committee, 



PARLEY A. RUSSELL, •) 



$10, 



ANIMALS— Twentieth Division. 

 Entries, 3. For the best pair Driving or Road Horses, (premiums, $30 $20 



H. C. Phelps, Lee, enters Fortune and Rose, 333 



Edwin Hurlburt, Great Barrington, b. m., " Clara Wilkes," b. g., " Ledo" Ill 



F. M. Dodge, Pittsfleld, b. g., "Tom Mason" and mate 2 2 2 



Time, 2:m}4 ; 2:57J^ , 2:57}^. 

 Single Horses. Entries, 14. 



For the best Single Horse, that has never started in a race, 

 Best, Wellington Smith, Lee, $7 



2d do., Leonard Tuttle, Sheffield, 6 



3d do., Charles F. Brown, Sheffield, 5 



4th do., M. L. Whitlock, Great Barrington, B 



5th do., M. D. Decker, Sheffield, 2 



PARLEY A. RUSSELL, ) 

 L. M.. JOYNER, [ Committee. 



GEORGE H. WHEELER, ) 



