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entered for competition ; the greater part of which are owned in this 

 State, and entered to compete with foreign cattle for the premiums in 

 this class. 



We have awarded the premiums as follows: 



No. 164. C. Fuller & Co., Plymouth, short horn bull 5 years 



old, Diploma and . . _ $10 00 



No. 134. J. Starkweather, Ypsilanti, short horn bull, 2 years 



old, Diploma and 7 00 



No* 34. Silas Sly, Plymouth, short horn bull calf, 4 months old, 5 00 

 No. 101. Crippen & Freeman, Coldwater, short-hora cow, 8 



years old, Diploma and 10 00 



No. 11(1. Asa Williams, Lima, short-hora heifer 2 years old, 



Diploma and 7 00 



No. 33. Silas Sly, Plymouth, short-horn heifer 1 year old, Di- 

 ploma nnd 5 00 



No. 36, Silas Sly, Plymouth, shoit-horn heifer calf 6 months 



old, _ 5 OO 



No Devon cattle owned out of the State were offered, consequently 

 no premiums can be awarded. 



There were some very fine Devons owned in the State, entered to 

 compete in this class, among which was a Devon bull. No. 247, owned 

 by O. E. Eld red, of Napoleon, Jackson county, which we think is a 

 very superior animal, and deserving of special notice. 



There were entered 25 head of short horn cattle by Gi'bert Mathews, 

 of Avon, Livingston Co., N. Y., some of these cattle were excellent 

 specimens of shoit horns, and some of them showed high marks of 

 breeding. 



One cow, No. 1., five years old, deserves special notice, and we recom- 

 mend a discretionary premium. 



A fine lot of short horn cows were exhibited by Silas Camp, of Hen- 

 rietta, Jackson county, all wortliy of special notice. 



The Committee regret that there are no more premiums offered in 

 ihis class, as we find many animnis worthy, yet but one premium is 

 offered in each division. We found it difficult in many cases to decide 

 on the merita of animals in the dillvrent divisions, but if the premium 

 list had been extended, as in the other classes of cattle, we would have 



