REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



FAT CATTLE. 



The Committee on Fat Cattle have attended to their 

 duty, and respectfully report to the Secretary that they 

 have made the following awards : 



$10. First premium to J. P. Little, Amesbury, for pair 

 oxen, Devons, 6 years old, weight 4250 pounds. 

 $8. Second premium to J. P. Little, Amesbury, for 

 pair oxen, Herefords, 5 years old, weight 4050 

 pounds. 

 $4. Third premium, to Furmer H. Greeley, Salisbury, 

 for pair oxen 6 years old, weight 3500 pounds. 

 Ephraim A. Dane, Edward Kent, R. T. Jaques — 

 Committee. 



STATEMENT OF J. P. LITTLE. 



The Devon cattle at Fair time I had owned fifteen 

 months, the Herefords between eleven and twelve months. 

 For the first four months the Devons did all the ox work 

 on the farm. Since that time the four have done the ox 

 work on the farm, drawing in eighty tons of hay each 

 year and hoisting it with a fork on to the mows. 



Besides the work on the farm they have done consider- 

 able outside teaming, drawing wood, salt hay, manure 

 from the village, &c. During the month previous to the 

 Fair they were worked reclaiming a meadow, pulling 

 trees, ploughing, &c. 



In regard to the manner of feeding, they have not been 

 to pasture any since I owned them. I commenced in the 

 early Autumn of 1885 to feed on fodder corn ; fed with 

 that nearly all the time, with very little hay all Winter ; 



