84 STEERS — SHEEP. 



STEERS. 



The Committee on Steers have attended to the duty assigned 

 them, and report : 



That nine pairs were entered, but only eight pairs appeared at 

 the pens. They award the premiums for three years old Steers as 

 follows, viz. : 



To Alfred Kimball, of Bradford, the 1st premium 7 00 



To Joseph KittredgOjOf Andover, the 2d premium 6 00 



For two years old Steers, 



To Joseph Kittredge, of Andover, the 1st premium 6 00 



To Richard S. Bray, of Newbury, the 2d premium 4 00 



And for yearlings, 

 To Jacob Farnum, of Andover, the 2d premium 3 00 



Also to Jacob Farnum and David S. Caldwell, mileage for their 

 Steers that did not obtain a premium. 



HORACE WARE, Chairman. 



SHEEP. 



The Committee on Sheep, (present T. E. Payson, Charles P. 

 Bailey, Wm. R. Cole,) report : 



There were three entries of Sheep — two of which only were for 

 premium. A lot of Chinese Lambs Avere presented for exhibition 

 by Wm. and T. Johnson, of North Andover. They were dropped 

 on board the ship Fleetwood, on her passage home from Shanghae, 

 when 70 days at sea. These lambs evidently have no relationship 

 to either of the varieties of fat-rumped Sheep which prevail in 

 China, but belong to a class of Sheep smaller in size, lighter in car- 

 cass, shorter in the leg, and more European in character. They 

 produce a tolerably fine, and in that country very useful long wool. 

 The Committee saw nothing in them to recommend above our own 

 Sheep. They are peculiar for their fecundity^ but in a country 

 where Sheep are generally so poorly fed that they are hardly able 



