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WORKING OXEX. 



PENS OF '\ILVE?. 



1st prem. to Augastus Whitman, Leominster, .$10 00 



GEO. L. RICE, Acting Chairman 



FAT CATTLE. 



The Committee on Fat Cattle have attended to their duties uud 

 report the following : 



FAT OXEN. 



1st prem. to Reuben A^ose, Winchendon, $8 00 



2d " John Brooks, Princeton, 5 00 



We recommend a gratuity to John Pago of Leominster, of 5S4.00. 



FAT STEERS. 



lst^)rem. to Reuben Vose Jr.. Winchendon, tj CO 



2d - " . •' 4 00 



According to the statement.^, ail the cattle were gra.ss fed only. 



C. C. BOYDEN, for Coramitfj'.e. 



WORKING OXEN— SINGLE TEAMS. 



It is with a good deal of pleasure that your Committee find them- 

 selves able to put on record the fact of an increasing interest in Work- 

 ing Oxen. We have often wished that our farmers might possess that 

 hearty and entire devotion to the interest of cattle training, which seem,'^ 

 to characterize the lovers of horse fiesh. All employments are yet tc 

 be tried, and awarded according as they are of v.sc ; and when that time 

 comes, the training of working osen will be elevated to that position 

 which of right it occupies in scientific agriculture. 



It has seemed to be our mission to at least aid, during the past twelve 

 years, in placing ox training on this elevated basis, and we rejoice to 

 know that the farming community responds, by an appreciative verdict, 

 to what has been done. The shrewd and progressive farmer of the 

 present day, cannot afford to keep, and improve upon, any but the 

 most perfect breeds of cattle ; and in the same view he is inclined to 

 regard those he employs for draught. He knows that the slip-shod 

 manner of conducting the business of matching cind training oxe^ for 



