REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



CATTLE. 



Class I — Durhams. 

 The committee of judges to award premiums for cattle class No. 1, 

 Durhams, report : That they have attended to the duty assigned 

 them with all the attention and industry they were capable of 

 of bestowing, and with a singleness of purpose, promotive of the 

 views of the society, in awarding premiums in the spirit of an 

 impartial and disinterested judgment. But, however zealous and 

 unbiassed, the committee cannot but acknowledge the diffidence they 

 felt in their competency to discriminate where the excellence and 

 merit of animals of the splendid class of cattle committed to them was 

 so strikingly imposing, especially the three year old bulls, — and 

 which, when compared, were so nicely balanced. Exercising, how- 

 ever, their best judgment, they make the following awards ; trust- 

 ing that their decisions may be acceptable to the society, and in a 

 reasonable measure, satisfactory to the contributors in general. 



Of Bulls., three years old and over. 



They award to E. P. Prentice, Mount-Hope, a premium of 

 $15, for the best, — for his bull O'Connel. 



To J. M. Sherwood, Auburn, for the second best, a premium of 

 $10, — for his bull Arrow. 



To Geo. Vail, of Troy, for the third best, a diploma, — for his bull 

 Symmetry. 



Of two years old. 



They award to Messrs, Bell & Morris, Westchester, for the best, 

 a first premium of $15, — for their bull Marius. 



In this class there were no other animals deemed worthy of the 

 second and third premiums. 



Of Yearlings. 



To W. W. Ballard, of Southport, Chemung county, for the best, a 

 first premium of $10,— for his bull Victor. 



To George BrinkerhofF, of Albany, for the second best, a premium 

 of Colman's Tour, — for his bull Peter Parley. 



To H. N. Carey, of Marcy, Oneida co., for the third best, a diplo- 

 mn. — for his bull Orea;on. 



