The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-10-19
The Committee awarded.

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To Samuel sibley, of Sutton, 4th do. 5 90
Seers.-Twenty pair of Yearling Steers
were entered, which is seven pair less than
last year. On these wac awarded
To BENJAMIN Harrington of Princeton,
LIST premium, for 3 years old, So 90
To Salmon Hathaway of Sutton, Cd
premium, for 8 years old, 90
To Joseph Merriam Of Princeton, LIST
premium, for 2 years old, 90
To Stephen Marsh, Jr. of Sutton, Cd
premium, for years old, 90
To Elisha Jacobs of Millbury, 1st pre-
MUM, for yearlings, 5 90
To Luther Whiting of Sutton, Cd pre-
MUM, for yearlings, 3 90
Fat Cattle.-Nne Fat Oxen were entered,
five only of which were offered for premium.
Four Of them were uncommonly fine, consid-
ering the expence of fattipg, all of them
weighing more than 2000lbs. each. The one
belonging to Aaron White, Esq. of Boylston,
was deserving Of particular notice. He is half
Denton, FIVE years Old, weighing 2l76 lbs.
and has not had single peck Of grain or meal
for the last six months. The two belonging to
John Temple, of West Boylston, were very
fine oxen, considering the expense of fatting,
thirty bushels Of corn ground in the cob to
each, being most Of the extra feed they have
had. Their weight was 1858 and 2l38 lbs.
The Committee awarded
To John Temple, of West Boylston,
LIST premium, $15 90
To Aaron White, of Boylston, I'd pre-
MUM, 10 90
Heep.-The number of Sheep entered was
about the same as last year, and, in quality,
there was certainly no improvement from some
former seasons. The rearing of sheep, es-
pecially the fne-woOled breed, is too much
neg ected by the farmers of this County. The
enterprisins Agriculturists of the upper Coun~
ties, of Dutchcss County in New-York, and
in some parts of Connecticut, are fast accu-
mulating wealth from the product of their
focks. When it is considered that the Merino
and Saxon sheep are, at least, as easily kept
as the native flock, that their fleeces are quite
as heavy, and are worth from twice to FIVE or
six times as much per pound, we are fully
justified in the belief that no other stock can
be as profitable. 1t may be proper, here, to
observe, that the wool from which the pre-
MUM Broadcloth was made, cost SIS so per
Id. by the bale, and that the Saxon wool al
ways sells readily at nearly that price.
We were gratded by an examination of a
Buck and two Ewes of the Leicester or Dish
ley breed, belonging to Stephen Williams,
Esq. of Marlborough, which, we understand,
were imported at considerable expense and al
great personal hazard. Their wool is of fine
texture and very long, and is used chiefly for
comhng. From that, it is, that the English
Bombazetts and other fine worsted stuffs are
made. We should suppose that valuable
stock might be reared by crossing them with
the Merinos. For their introduction, the in
telligent and enterprizing owner is entitled to
the gratitude of community, TO whose inter-
ests he has, in so many ways, contributed
fine yearlipg Saxon Ram which was pur.
chased from the flock of |. C. Bates, ESQ., oil
Northampton, was exhibited by Gov. Lincoln.
We have not been able to procure the Re.
port of the Committee on Sheep, and, conse-
quently, are unable to say to whom the
premiums were awarded.
S@ipe.-The Show of Swine was unrivalled
atfording highly favourable specimen of the
grunting race, TO whom ample justice wa!
awarded in an ingenious and amusing report
made by Emory Washburn, Esq. of Leices.
ter, Chairman of the Committee on Swine
They were mostly Of the Bedford breed and
crosses from it, and we should suppose, thai
every farmer who was present, and who ha:
been in the habit OF keeping the raw-boned
long-snouted, great-eared, slab sided race,
which is too common, would go home with a
full determination to kill them off, and never
get any more Of them. The great disparity
between different breeds, in the tendency to
fatten, has not been sufficiently appreciated,
but every successive years exhibition has
afforded satisfactory evidence of improvement
in this respect. The Committee awarded
For Bears,
To Silas Dudley OF Sutton, 81 90
To John Gleason, Jr. of Worcester, 90
For SO,OS,
To Ward & Rice of Worcester, 90
To Capt. Nathaniel Gates of Worcester, a 90
To Ward & Rice, for the best Pigs, 4 90
Ploughtng Match.-sixteen Teams were
entered, fifteen Of which appeared,to contend
for the premiums. The work, so far as we are
capable of judging, was performed better than
on former occasions. In this, as we'll as in
the trial of the Working Oxen, the docility
and subsection of the Cattle were the subject
of particular remark. That this part Of the
Exhibition has lost no portion of its interest,
was evident from the apparently high graf.
i6cation with which il was yieved hv