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FIFTEENTH DIVISION. 



Your committee scarcely deemed themselves competent to pass an opin- 

 ion in regard to this branch of stock-growing. Considerable attention has 

 been paid to secure the most valuable qualities in breeding mares, and yet 

 there is room for still greater improvement. We would recommend that 

 more premiums be given in view of the fact that there were more worthy 

 of preminms than we were authorized to award; consequently, your com- 

 mittee found it extremely difficult to determine of their respective merits 

 satisfactorily to themselves and the competitors. There were twenty-two en- 

 tries. After a careful examination we have awarded as follows: — 

 For the best breeding mare and colt, (colt sired by a full-blood " Hamil- 

 tonian" owned by W. Shaver, Hillsdale, N. Y.,) Mrs. 

 of Egremont, 



2d do., John Conner of Sheffield, 



3d do., H. L. Rowe of Egremont, 



4th do., James H. Rowley of Egremont, 



5th do., Henry Dresser of Stockbridge, 



6th do., Charles L. Wright of Egremont, 



7th do., Levi K, Kline of Egremont, 



JoiIN R, PRINDLE, 

 SIXTEENTH DIVISION. 



Entries — Stallions, 3; three-years-old Colts, 8 ; two-years-old Colts, 11; 

 Yearling Colts, 7; Stud Colts 1. 



Y"our committee have attended to the duties assigned them, and would 

 speak of the interest manifested in the breeding and raising of that noblest 

 of animals, the Horse, with great pleasure. So were the specimens shown in 

 some of the classes that it was difficult to decide upon the merits and award 

 so as to satisfy ourselves or the competitors themselves. If we have failed 

 in our judgment, we hope all will remember that we are expected to be 

 perfect or above censure. l r our committee would make particular mention 

 of a three-years-old stud colt owned by John Winthrop of Stockbridge, 

 sired by "Americus," owned and kept by Wm. J. Mallory of Lee. We 

 are of the opinion that it was the finest three-ycars-old stallion ever ex- 

 hibited upon the society's grounds. 



Best stallion, John Winthrop of Stockbridge, $10 00 



2d do., G. H. Babcock of Lenox, 8 00 



3d do., John Hale of Tyringham, 6 00 



Best three-years-old colt, Elizur Smith of Lee, 5 00 



2d do., Oliver Stafford of Great Barrington, 4 00 



3d do., H. G. Ford of New Marlboro, ' 3 00 



4th do., S. H. Bushnell of Sheffield, 2 00 



Extra premium, Charles Sage of Sheffield, 1 00 



do., Charles Brown of Sheffield, 1 00 



do., Byron M. Hall of New Marlboro, 1 00 



do., H. S. Mauley of Saudisfield 1 00 



