54 ONWORKINGCATTLE. 



ON WORKING OXEN. 



The Committee on Working Oxen, Report :— 

 Twenty entries were made by the following persons, viz: 

 Barzillai Gould, of Middleton, 5 years old, 

 George Daniels, " " 



Jonathan Berry, jr., " 5 " 



S. B. Swan, of Danvers, 6 " 



James Putnam, " did not appear. 

 Joseph C. Putnam, " 7 " 



Moses Pettingill, Topsfield, 7 " 



Ezra Dodge, of Wenham, 5 " 



Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton, 5 " 



Jedediah H. Barker, Andover, 5 " 



Charles Foster, " 6 " 



William Williams, Rowley, 7 " 



Randall Andrews, Ipswich, 6 " 



Levi Lord, " 7 



Manasseh Brown, " 6 " 



Aaron Kinsman, " 



George Hodgedon, " 6 " 



Micajah Tread well, '' 6 " 



Thomas Low, " 6 '■' 



Joseph Low, Essex, 7 " 



The Committee consider that there are more difficulties in 

 the way of deciding correctly upon the merits of Working 

 Oxen, than in any other department of the exhibition. 



The Committee on ploughing, can examine the work done 

 over and again. 



On the Dairy, they can bring specimens in immediate 

 contact. 



The important points in Animals can be placed side by 

 side. 



So with Domestic Manufactures, with Fruits and Flowers. 



Not so with Working Oxen. Each pair goes its round, and 



when twenty teams have followed in succession, the decision 



must be made from the recollection of impressions made on 



the Committee's minds at the time of drawing. If differences 



