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Your committee regret that marcs entered for premium 

 cannot be driven in harness, so that they could judge better of 

 their disposition, gait and style, &c. This, we think, should 

 be required of the exhibitors by the society., 



M. C, Andrews, J. Whitehead, C. S. Clark, Joseph Aker- 

 man. — Committee. 



FAMILY HORSES. 



The committee award to : — 



Charles Sanders, Salem, family horse, first premium, $10. 

 0. S. Butler, Georgetown, family horse, second premium, $6. 

 William Cogswell, Bradford, family horse, third premium, 

 14. 



Chas. H. Gould, Henry L. Tenney, David Stiles, A. B. 



Woodis. — Committee. 



FARM AND DRAFT HORSES. 



TheCommittee report the entry of ten horses, varying in 

 weight from 860 to 1540 pounds ; that each of them performed 

 the task in compliance with the rules of the society, but they 

 do not consider a load of 2000 pounds a test of the ability of 

 a draft horse on as slight an elevation as that on which they 

 performed their work, and are unanimously of the opinion 

 that the restrictions governing the manner of testing the 

 strength, disposition and training of the horses in this class, 

 should be left more to the discretion of the committee, under 

 the varying conditions and circumstances that yearly occur 

 by change of location ; and for the benefit of those who wish 

 to exhibit a premium horse, recommend, instead of the exist- 

 ing rule, the adoption of the use of a block of uniform dimen- 

 sion, (say 2 in. by 2 in.), to be used before one wheel, if they 

 deem it necessary. 



