50 MARES AND COLTS. 



MAKES AND COLTS. 



The Committee on Mares and Colts having attended to the 

 duties assigned them, make their report, as follows : 



We find there were entered for premium, fourteen; but 

 nine were exhibited, and we have awarded the following : 



BREEDING MARES. 



1st premium, to B. Wheeler of Fitchburg, $6 00 



2d, to Levi White of Lunenburg, 4 00 



3d, was not awarded. 



SUCKING COLTS. 



1st premium, to Ohio Whitney of Ashburnham, 3 00 



2d, to B. Wheeler of Fitchburg, 2 00 



3d, to Levi White of Lunenburg, 1 00 



And the committee recommend that a gratuity of $1JX) 

 be paid to Amos Whitney of Ashburnham. 



Your committee beg leave to make a few suggestions to 

 those engaged in breeding horses. We find that a large 

 proportion of the colts raised, never pay the expense ot 

 raising, because people try to raise them too cheaply. No 

 man would expect to raise a crop of onions upon a piece of 

 worn out land j but if he expects to get a profit from the 

 crop, he will select his best soil, use the best manure, and 

 take great pains to obtain the best seed, and apply his best 

 skill in cultivation, and then expects and obtains a bountiful 

 harvest ; let this principle be carried out by horse breeders 

 and the work is accomplished. To do this, take not the 

 halt, wind-broken mares, for breeding, because they are old 

 and worthless for anything else, but select your young, best 

 blooded mares, and obtain the service of the best stock-get- 

 ting horse in the country, and in nine cases out of ten you 

 will raise a good colt ; but do not, for a moment, think the 

 colt will take care of himself, but be sure you give him good 

 care for the two first years of his life, at least ; a few oats 



