KEPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



FAT CATTLE. 



The Committee on Fat Cattle have attended to their 

 duty, and respectfully report to the Secretary that they 

 have made the following awards : 



flO. First premium to S. & N. Longfellow, Groveland, 

 for pair oxen 5 years old, weight 3590 pounds. 



$S. Second premium to R. T. Jacques, Newbury, for 

 pair oxen 7 years old, weight 4230 pounds. 



$4. Third premium, to Jas. Ferguson, West Newbury, 

 for pair oxen 5 years old, weight 3000 pounds. 



Wm. H. Greenleaf, James P. Cleaveland, Richard S. 

 Newell. — Committee. 



STATEMENT OF S. & N. LONGFELLOW. 



Groveland, Sept. 22, 1885. 

 The oxen we enter for your consideration were five years 

 old last May, are Grade Durhams, weight 3590 pounds. 

 Their feed from March 1st, 1885, to June 1, 1885, was 

 4 quarts of meal each per day and poor hay. Their feed 

 from June 1st to Sept. 22d, was pasture ; no grain of any 

 kind. We have owned them four years and their work has 

 been ordinary farm work. They have done all the work on 

 the farm since three years of age. 



Cost of keeping from March 1 to Sept. 22, 1885, $45.00 

 Value of their work, 30.00 



S. & N. Longfellow. 



STATEMENT OF R. T. JAQUES. 



I enter one pair Fat Oxen, seven years old, weighing 



