HEIFERS. 



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or twelve weeks, care should be taken to avoid the 

 extremes of too high or short feeding, but take good 

 care of them for the first year, keeping them in a healthy 

 growth. After that, they will require only ordinary 

 attention. 



I have been led to adopt these opinions from the fact 

 that, after all that is said in favor of blood stock, and 

 the attempt of the owners and breeders of it to put 

 down all grade stock, the market-man tells me that it is 

 from them he gets his poorest calves for veal. Under 

 these impressions, and they prevailed in all of the com- 

 mittee, we selected the following as suitable candidates 

 for future usefulness, and recipients of the premiums : 



TWO- YEARS-OLD. 



1st, to W. W. Watson, Princeton, $4,00 



2d, to Henry Boyles, Princeton, 3,00 



3d, to Levi Downe, Fitchburg, 2,00" 



YEARLINGS. 



1st, to Henry Boyles, of Princeton, 3,00 



2d, to John Brooks, Jr., Princeton, 2,00' 



3d, to Nathan Caswell, Fitchburg, , l,Off 



CALVES. 



1st, to Samuel Far well, Fitchburg, 3,00 



2d, to S. M. Caswell, Fitchburg, 2,00 



3d, to J. P. Putnam, Fitchburg, 1,00 



To Daniel H. Spaulding, for his twin heifers, a 



gratuity of 2,00 



To W. H. Wetherbee, for his two-years-old, a 



gratuity of 2,00 



To Israel Everett, for his two-years-old, a gratuity of 2,00 



EZRA KENDALL, Chairman, 



