DRADGHT HORSES AND MOLES. 



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THREE- YEARS-OLD STEERS. 



1st, to W. W. Watson, of Princeton, $6,00 



2d, to Josiah Page, of Westminster, 4,00 



And would recommend a gratuity to W. W. Watson, 

 of Princeton, of $3,00 on a three-year-old steer. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



LEMUEL PITTS, 



For the Committee. 



DRAUGHT HOESES AND MULES. 



Exhibitions of animal strength have always been 

 viewed with interest by agriculturists, a class of men 

 eminently fond of the practical and forcible. To the 

 eye of a true farmer the working horse, whose limbs are 

 formed for toil, is a far more desirable object than the 

 race-horse, even though the latter be of pure blood and 

 able to run a four mile heat in seven minutes, or a 

 trotter that does his mile in 2:191, like Flora Temple. 



Throughout New England, on many small farms, one 

 good draught horse performs all the work necessary in 

 cultivating the land, besides drawing the family in the 

 " one-hoss-shay." Those who wish to convey large loads 

 to any considerable distance, find it better to use horses 

 than oxen, though the solid strength and patient temper 

 of the latter render them very useful for doing rough 

 work in a rough country like ours. Wherever the 

 nature of the land will admit of it, we think that the 

 liorse is quite as useful an animal as the ox, and much 

 more so upon farms where mowing machines and horse- 

 rakes are used; and we cannot but think that a wise 



