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and three years old, many of whicli were of a high grade 



of excellence, affording gratifying evidence of increasing 



interest in this important branch of hnsbandry, so well 



adapted to our rock-bound hills. While the growing and 



rapid prosperity of the Worcester North Agricultural Society 



warrants us to expect hereafter still larger premiums to 



reward, may we hope and trust, still higher attainments in 



stock-growing. 



Submitted by 



A. CROCKER, Chairman. 



YEARLING HEIFERS AND HEIFER CALVES. 



Committee. — Amasa Norcross, Filchhurg, — Benjamin Wyman, West- 

 minster, — Solomon P. Burpee, Princeton, — Daniel Works, Fitchhurg, — 

 John M. Stevenson, Sterling. 



Your Committee on Yearling Heifers and Heifer Calves, 

 have attended to the duties assigned them, and beg leave to 

 report as follows : 



For the best yearling heifer, $3,00, to George Chandler, 

 Shirley. 



For the second best yearling heifer, $2,00 to Hosea Green, 

 Ashburnham. 



For the second best heifer calf, more than four months 

 old, $2,50, to Levi Smith, Ashby. 



For the second best, $2,00; to Levi Kendall, Fitchburg. 



For the third best, $1,50, to Abel F. Adams, Fitchburg. 



Fourth best, to Nathan Danforth, Princeton. $1,00. 



The Committee deem it proper to state that in making the 

 above awards they were obliged to do injustice to their own 

 convictions of the merits of the enterics that were made ; - 

 and that the limited character of the premiums offered, pre- 

 vented awards to the following persons: 



Joel Page, of Fitchburg ; George M. Gregory, of Princeton, 



