.TRANSACTIONS. 9T 



S. A. Kimball, Concord, Diploma. 



Joseph P. Dearborn, Sanbornton, for best Devon, $8 00 

 Alvin Beck, Canterbury, 5 00 



J. E. Tyler Concord, for best Ayrshire, 8 00 



B. F. Duncklee, Concord, 5 00 



In view of the meagre display of cows at this Fair, 

 compared with that of oxen and other kinds of stock, 

 both as to numbers, and also in regard to the qualities 

 necessary to render them highly profitable, as well as 

 beautiful, your committee feel called upon to make a few 

 remarks, by way of suggestion, upon this very important 

 branch of stock improvement, as connected with agricultu- 

 ral interests. 



And first, we would remark, there is not that interest 

 felt and manifested, in the improvement of cows, that there 

 is in other kinds of neat stock. We feel there is a great 

 lack of eftbrt, to combine, in the same animal the necessary 

 qualifications to render them good milkers and good 

 breeders. On this point we arc happy to be able to 

 recommend to the favorable notice of this society the plan 

 adopted by such men of ability and experience, as Mr. 

 Cogswell Dudley, of Pembroke, and Mr. Benjamin Farnum, 

 of Concord, who have exhibited their stock. Their method 

 we believe has been, to take their native cows, and so cross 

 with other breeds as to secure symmetry, and beauty of 

 form, the most desirable color, and that almost uniformly, 

 and at the same time secure the necessary qualities for 

 good milkers. Now, such men as these, do not need the 

 patronage of this society to induce. them to go on improv- 

 ing their stock. 



But to encourage those who have the same feelings 

 and interest upon this subject struggling in their bosom 

 but have not the means to gratify them, and put them into 

 practical operation, we would suggest the propriety of so 

 increasing the premiums on cows as to induce those of 



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