62 ON SHEEP. 



which, of course, the Report cannot further notice, especially 

 as no description was furnished by the owner. 



The Committee award the first premium, of six dollars, to 

 Dr. Joseph Kittredge. 



The other lot was owned by Jacob Farnum, and consisted 

 of twelve in number, a part being lambs, but intended to be 

 kept for breeding. The sixteen lambs were very handsome. 



The Committee award to Mr. Farnum, the second premium, 

 of five dollars. 



In coming to the above result, the Committee have not lost 

 sight of the principle that premiums shall not be awarded as 

 matter of course. It would have been fully within our prov- 

 ince, we believe, to have reported that either or both have been 

 unworthy of a premium, if such had been the fact. Such, 

 however, is not the fact. The sheep of Dr. Kittredge, and 

 the lambs, or young sheep, as they may be called, of Mr. Far- 

 num, are of good quality, and both gentlemen are evidently 

 disposed still further to improve their own sheep, and afford 

 the facility for enabling others to improve theirs. 



Whatever may be said of sheep raising in the hands of oth- 

 er people, it cannot be an unprofitable business with Dr. Kit- 

 tredge, even in Essex county, where it receives, comparatively, 

 so little attention. One of his sheep had her second Iamb of 

 this season with her in the pen, the first having been sold to 

 the butcher for five dollars. In short, the quality of the Doc- 

 tor's flock is such that he was offered ^3.75 each for seven- 

 teen of his lambs ; 5 dollars each for four of them, and 4 

 dollars for ten. 



Dr. K. gives his shecj) no grain, but the lambs as much meal 

 as they will eat. His preference is for the largest Leicester 

 sheep, and the pure South Down buck. 



In conclusion, the Committee cannot but say they are im- 

 pressed painfully with the fact that so little attention is paid 

 to sheep husbandry in our County. They are also painfully 

 struck with the idea, that of the 5000 sheep in the County, 

 there should have been the representatives of two little flocks 

 only. We hope for better things next year. But few of our 

 farmers, it is true, can, like Mr. Jewett, of Middlebury, Ver-, 



