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smaller moans, to make an increased effort to improve 

 their stock, and especially their cows. For while Mr. 

 Dudley ccm, and has, paid $125 for a bull to cross with his 

 previous breeds, his poor neighbors, (and no doubt some 

 who are not so poor) feel as if they could not afford to 

 pay him one dollar for the use of the same animal. And 

 another end to be secured by the increase of premiums, is 

 to lead men having good cows, more remote from the Fair^ 

 to bring them here for exhibition, and that they might be 

 remunerated for the loss of milk while here, and the 

 diminished quantity sure to follow the present system of 

 feeding them here. 



With one suggestion more we close these remarks, and 

 that is this : Whether it would not be well for this society 

 to so award their premiums as to encourage such crosses 

 of blood, as upon investigation and actual experiment, 

 shall be found to secure the combination of those qualities 

 that constitute valuable cows, and with especial reference 

 to the breeding qualities, taking into account their shape 

 and color, both of which should be uniform as far as pos- 

 sible, so that to have beautiful and matched cattle, might 

 become the general rule and 7iot the exception, as at present. 



Many pages might be written upon this subject, but if 

 these few remarks shall have the effect to increase in any 

 degree an interest in this very important branch of hus. 

 bandry, your committee will be amply rewarded. 



A. M. BRAINARD, 



D. ROLLINS, ^ Commiltce. 



N. P. FOGG, 



HEIFERS. 



J. M. Hadley, Littleton, for best Ayrshire heifer 



(with calf) two years old, $6 00 



L N. Sawyer, Salisbury, for best Devon heifer two 



years old, with calf, 6 00 



