KEPOETS OF COMMITTEES. 



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WINTEII MANAGEMENT OF STOCK. 



Eive gentlemen have favored ilie Committee appointed 

 for that purpose with an invitation to examine their 

 management^ viz : Messrs. John Brooks, Jr., of Princeton, 

 George Chandler, of Shirley, Jabez Fisher, James P. 

 Putnam and Benjamin SafFord, of Fitchburg. We have 

 called upon other farmers as we have been in their 

 neighborhood, who kindly received us and showed us 

 their stock, giving us much information in relation 

 to it. The object of this offer of premium seems to 

 direct our inquiries to the manner of expending the 

 crops of the season, and to the returns received ; the 

 number and condition of the stock, quantity of manure, 

 the way of keeping and using it, amount of sales, &c. 

 So fiiv as your Committee know, this is something new 

 and well worthy careful attention. 



Jan. 26. We first visited by request the establish- 

 ment of John Brooks, Jr., of Princeton. His stock 

 consists of thirty head of neat cattle, viz : thirteen cows, 

 four two-year-old heifers, three one-year-old do., and 

 five calves, two Devon and two Ayrshire bulls, and two 

 yoke of oxen ; ten of the cows are Ayrshire and three- 



