60 ON SHEEP. 



and to recommend such gratuities as may seem proper. 

 Several lots of sheep were entered. 



Joseph Marshall, of Ipswich, entered a lot, his whole 

 flock, consisting of twenty-one. They are quarter 

 blood Merino. Mr. Marshall's main object seems to be 

 the raising of lambs for early market. His sheep, (a fair 

 sample having been exhibited ) appear no way extraor- 

 dinary beyond what farmers generally in the county 

 might raise by making the same exertions that he has 

 made, but the Committee having carefully examined his 

 very detailed statement of the whole manner of keeping 

 his sheep, but more particukirly his scrupulous regard 

 to the preservation of their health, and on the whole 

 his success in raising early lambs and good fleeces at a 

 cheap rate of keeping, recommend that a gratuity be 

 granted him of ten dollars. 



Elijah Pope, of Danvers, exhibited a lamb five months 

 and two weeks old, of extraordinary fatness, kept in a 

 common pasture, and we recommend that a gratuity of 

 three dollars be granted him. 



George T. Clark, of Andover, entered eight Dishley 

 sheep, but the committee saw no statement of his man- 

 ner of keeping them. 



Josiah Crosby, of Andover, exhibited one Dishley 

 lamb ; but no statement. 



Joel Russell, of Andover, exhibited six otter breed 

 sheep, which we presume have claim to merit, on ac- 

 count of their having little disposition or ability to climb 

 fences and to wander from their pastures, but no state- 

 ment was presented. 



George Spoffbrd, of Georgetown, exhibited three 

 sheep and two lambs, from one of them, with a state- 

 ment that 24 lbs. of wool were dipt from the three sheep 

 in June last. The two lambs are four months and 

 twenty days old. The others had one lamb each which 

 were sold at two and a half months old, at three dollars 

 each. We recommend Mr. Spoffbrd have a gratuity of 

 five dollars. 



For the Committee, 



TEMPLE CUTLER. 



