24 TOWN TEAMS. 



GEESE. 



T. D. Wood, No. Leominster, 1st premium, .3 00 



L. H. Butterfield, Fitchburg, 2d premium,. \ , " T 2 00 



DUCKS-(ROUEN). 



Aaron P. Whitaey, Lunenburg, 1st premium, 3 00 



STILLMAN HAYNES, for the Committee. 



TOWN TEAMS. 



Your Committee on Towa Teams have attended to tlie duty assigned 

 them, and report : 



Only one entry was made, and that from Leominster by H. A. Woods" 

 We unanimously award : 



Town of Leominster, 1st premium, $30 00 



We exceedingly regret that lack of interest which pervades the 

 Agricultural community, in the use of Oxen for Farm work. Horses 

 are preferred on many farms, because they are more fleet in their 

 motion^ ; their owners forgetting that, should an accident happen to 

 them, or old age render them useless for labor, their hides and shoes 

 would constitute their whole value. Whereas, Oxen require much less 

 expense for harness than Horses, and when old, have a value for the 

 shambles. Many farms have lands on which oxen can do the work 

 much better than horses, such as miry, rocky or stumpy land, and on 

 steep hill-sides^ and on our New England farms as well as in Old 

 England, as has been sung — 



" How jocund did they drive their teams afield." 



The ox is a noble animal, and when " The Society for the Prevention 

 of Cruelty to Animals," shall fulfil its mission^ he will not have more 

 occasion to despise his master. 



If the prophet Elisha plowed with twelve yoke of oxen in olden 

 time, the Yankee has made such improvement in his yokes and plows, 

 as to do the same work with one yoke of oxen ; and we have no inti- 

 mation that the soil of the Oriental country is more stubborn than that 

 of the Occidental. And we think that oxen may be kept more cheaply 

 than horses. 



Our good neighbors of Leominster, who always abound in good 

 works, exhibited a Team of 17 yoke of stalwart oxen, that would draw 

 encomium at any Fair in New England, and added much to the Show. 



