30 WORKING OXEN. 



HEIFER CALVES. 



The Committee on Heifer Calves have attended to tlicir duty and 

 make the following awards : 



CALVES MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS OLD. 



1st premium to Abel F. Adams, Fitchburg, 

 2d premium to Franklin Nourse, Sterling, 



CALVES RAISED BY HAND. 



1st premium to J. P. Reed, Princeton, 

 2d premium to Benj. Safford, Fitchburg, 

 3d premium to J. E. Merriam, Princeton, 



J. W. FORBUSH, Chairman. 



WORKING OXEN. 



SINGLE TEAMS. 



There were eight entries in this department, and after due delibera- 

 tion, your Committee have made, and hereby announce the following 

 awards : 



1st premium to J. P. Reed, Princeton, 

 2d premium to Cr. S. Mirick, Princeton, 

 3d premium to Franklin Nourse, Sterling, 

 4th premiun to J. P. Reed, Princeton, 

 5th premium to S. A. Wheeler, Fitchburg. 

 Gratuity to A. Hall, Lunenburg, 



MINOR TEAMSTER. 



1st premium to T. Austin Mirick, Princeton, 5 00 



2d premium, none to compete. 



^^our Committee deem it proper to state that, moved by fears that 

 the trial ground originally designated would poach so much as to 

 amount to a disadvantage for the last pairs operating, a new spot was 

 tinally selected, " with the advice and consent " of the competitors, 

 v>^hicli, though in some respects objectionable, was free from the defect 

 mentioned as pertaining to the other place. 



The present would seem to be a fitting occasion to express regret 

 that there should have been so much cause for the dissatisfaction, 



