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is to be hoped that the now favorite Durhams, may, by-and-by, in fu- 

 ture competition, find in them " foeman worthy of their steel." 



In view of the foregoing considerations, your committee would 

 respectfully beg leave to recommend that extra premiums be award- 

 ed to the Herefords, as follows: 



To Mr. Sotham's cow Matchless, fifteen dollars. 



To his cow Martha, ten dollars. - 



And a diploma to his heifer Maria. 



If the Herefords were distributed in more hands, so as to give room 

 for competition among themselves, your committee would suggest 

 the expediency of hereafter offering premiums for them in a class dis- 

 tinct from other breeds. Also for Morth Devons, a highly useful and 

 most valuable breed, especially on light soils, and in hilly districts of 

 country. 



Your committee cannot in justice close their report, without re- 

 marking that the want of information as to how the animals had been 

 fed, also as to the milking qualities of the cows, and occasionally as 

 to the pedigrees, was much felt by the committee, who, in the ab- 

 sence of this needed information, were in many instances left to grope 

 their way in the dark to a decision, of course, in some cases, by no 

 means satisfactory, even to themselves. Nor did we find persons in 

 attendance, to lead out the animals for a more full and careful exami- 

 nation, especially as to their style of carriage or movement, which it 

 is needless to remark, is, as well as form and handling, an essential 

 element of any intelligent opinion, or critical decision on their merits. 



REPORT ON CLASSES IX. X. AND XI. 



[Committee. — Messrs. James Neilson, G. V. Sackett, and John 



Johnston.] 



The committee appointed to examine grade cattle, in classes IX, 

 X, and XI, beg leave to report: — 



That the competition on this occasion, has been extremely limited, 

 both as to the number of cattle, and the variety of the crosses. No 

 specimen of a cross between the Native stock and the Devon, or 

 Hereford, or Ayrshire, has been presented; and the crosses of the 

 Durham are much less numerous than might have been expected. 

 This is much to be regretted. Nothing but experiments on all the 

 breeds now imported, will enable us to ascertain their relative value 

 in crossing, and it is obvious that the result of these experiments 

 must be made known in the most public manner, in order to be wide- 

 ly useful. 



The committee regard public exhibitions of this kind, eminently 

 calculated to diffuse such information, and they conceive that in neg- 

 lecting them, the breeder neglects as well his own, as the interest 

 of the public. 



They have selected No. 7, (Mr. Risley's cow,) of class IX, No. 



