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Which make these thirteen pigs cost me fifty cents each. One 

 item in favor of these swine is that they will eat almost any- 

 thing, and will thrive on the poorest of food. This, I think, 

 is worthy of consideration, especially when grain is as high as 

 it is now. 



North Andover, Sept. 27th, 18G4. 



SHEEP — COARSE WOOLED. 



The Committee on Coarse Wool Sheep report : 



That there were but two persons who made entry for the 

 Society's premiums, and no other persons had sheep on exhi- 

 bition. 



Charles Corliss, of Haverhill, entered one one year, and 

 one two year old buck ; also, five lambs, all Cotswold. 



Joseph W. Trask, of Beverly, — two grade bucks, one one 

 year, and the other four years old, both of which gave credit 

 for the care bestowed upon them. 



The Committee award the premium of five dollars to Charles 

 Corliss, of Haverhill, for his one year old Cotswold buck, 

 Niagara, and the premium of Harris' Work on Insects Injuri- 

 ous to Vegetation, for his flock of five Cotswold lambs. 



The Committee were surprised at the smallness of the show 

 of sheep. They had supposed there was a growing interest in 

 this class of husbandry, not only in Vermont, Maine and New 

 Hampshire, but in our own State and county. If the show is 

 taken as an index of the fact, they w^ere mistaken. 



It would seem needless, at the present price of meat and 

 "wool, for us to say anything to urge the farmers of Essex 

 County to keep sheep. We are satisfied that all who have 

 kept a flock as part of their stock are convinced that it is the 

 best paying of their farming operations in dollars and cents ; 



