SWINE. 813 



is satisfied witli bogs tliat have no trace of Suffolk, Leicester, Chester 

 County, or some other superior blood in them, would use his great 

 grandfiitber's old wooden plow, with a few straps of tin or sheet iron 

 on it, and it wouldn't be strange if he were to do liis courting with his 

 father's old love-letters. 



In focdin<2; all animals, some farmers make a mistake in not d(jing it 

 well, liberalhj, and regularly. Tliey act almost as if a pint of grain 

 pinched out of an animal, was so much stived. Tliis is a sad blunder, 

 for if you give your beast but just enough to repair tlie waste which is 

 continually going on in Ids system, ho has nothing from which to 

 produce nuiscle, bone, or fat. 



Some go to the opposite extreme of feeding very highly for a long 

 time, and thus make hogs tliat weigh six or seven hundred, and beeves 

 in proportion. Such meat, altlxnigh it looks tempting to the eye, is 

 unfit for food, and it may be from witnessing, or experiencing the bad 

 effects of over-indulgence in the like, that you have become prejudiced 

 against pork. As much injury will result from gorging one's self 

 with very fat beef, or mutton, or poultry, as from very fat pork. It is 

 the abuse of God's gifts, and not their proper use, which causes suffer- 

 ing to His children. 



We are glad to say from the appearance of the stock to-day exhibited, 

 that some of the farmers of Worcester North know how^ to produce, 

 and properly care for, animals of .this class. 



There were fourteen lots entered, all but one of which w^ere on exhi- 

 bition. The Committee had some difficulty in deciding on the compar- 

 ative merits of some of the lots of weaned pigs, but finally decided 

 unanimously to award the following premiums : 



BOARS MORE THAN ONE YEAR OLD. 



To Geo. R. Carter of Leominster, 1st premium, $4 00 



BOARS LESS THAN ONE YEAR OLD. 



To J. M. Sawtell of Fitchburg, gratuity of 3 00 



FAT HOGS MORE THAN EIGHT MONTHS OLD. 



To Dennis Fay of Ash by, 1st premium. 

 To Seth Tw^ichell of Fitchlmrg, gratuity, 



FAT PIGS MORE THAN I'OUR MONTHS OLD. 



To B. F. Proctor of Fitchburg, 2d premium. 

 To B. F. Proctor of Fitchburg, 3d premium, ■ 



BREEDING SOWS. 



To Isaac B. Woodward of Fitchburg, 2d premium, 

 To J. M. Sawtell of Fitchlmrg, gratuity, 

 To J. M. Sawtell of Fitchburg, gratuity, 



