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preference for any of the breeds now claiming our attention, 

 we would say that our own experience for the past ten years 

 has led us to think very favorably of half breed Chesters for 

 fattening. We would take a full blood Chester Boar, with any 

 deep well-marked Sow, (such we have very often found among 

 the Columbia County hogs) ; from them we will get a variety 

 of pigs that, with liberal and judicious feeding, will weigh, at 

 the age of seven or eight months, three hundred pounds or 

 more. 



There were a large number of Swine entered for premium, 

 (about fifty,) and many of them very superior animals, far ex- 

 ceeding any former exhibition. The Committee found it no 

 easy thing to determine who should be the successful com- 

 petitors. 



P. R. Basford, of South Danvers, entered a very fine lot of 

 Swine, and although, in the opinion of the Committee, he was 

 not entitled to a premium, yet we would say he presented a 

 stock of Hogs of which he might well be proud, and that he is 

 deserving the thanks of the Society for adding so much of in- 

 terest to that department of the exhibition. 



Henry A. King, of South Danvers, exhibited a fine breed- 

 ing Sow, remarkable for her prolific qualities, but as the Com- 

 mittee felt that her success was o"oing in a great measure to the 

 good management of Mr. King, we had to pass him in our 

 favors, for the premium was for the best Breeding Sow, and not 

 for the best managed breeding. 



David S. Tenney, of Newbury, had a very fine Boar of the 

 Stickney breed, which we understand is making his mark in 

 that part of the County. 



Your Committee would recommend that sufficient and suita- 

 ble pens be erected on the ground for the exhibition of Swine. 

 We can see no more propriety in lifting up our Hogs, on 

 boxes of carts four or five feet from the ground, with no 

 chance to sec them except through a knot-hole in the side, or 



