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three-fourths Suffolk, was entered for premium by Enoch 

 Whitmore, Esq., of Ashburnham, and received the admiration 

 of the Committee. We could not not say that it was the 

 best, as there was no other one with which to compare it. 

 The Committee with entire unanimity award him a premium 

 of two dollars. Of weaned pigs, two entries of one pig 

 each were made. One by James Pierce, of Westminster, 

 3 months 19 days old, and one by Levi Kendall, of Fitch- 

 burg, 2 mos. 25 days old. We award to Mr. Pierce the first 

 premium of $2 00, and to Mr. Kendall, the second premium 

 of $1 50. Agreeably to the suggestions of the Honorable 

 Secretary, your Committee made all the inquiries in their pow- 

 er in regard to the care and keeping of the animals presented 

 them. 



In the fine specimen of Col. Whitmore, no extraordinary 

 pains were taken, but the animal seemed to thrive, as is usual 

 with this breed, where others would have been ordinary. — 

 The other specimens were fed from the refuse of the dairy, 

 and one of them attained its title to premium mostly by a feed 

 of sweet apples with a little bran and a few oats. 



We could not learn that either tobacco or alchohol had been 

 resorted to for improving the neatness or thrift of these tender 

 specimens of the farmers stock. 



The pigs were neat and very well behaved, and we congrat- 

 ulate the Worcester North Agricultural Society on such a fine 

 addition to the exhibition, only regretting there were so few 

 specimens offered, and we do hope in all the appropriate qual- 

 ifications of thrift, neatness, manners, and gratification of the 

 appetite, that the young gentlemen and ladies of Worcester 

 North will not suffer themselves to be outdone by the swine 

 less than eight months old. 



Respectfully submitted for the Committee, 



OILMAN JONES, Chairman. 



Fitchburg, Sept. 19th, 1855. 

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