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To the Executive Committee of the JV. F. State Jig. Soc: 



The undersigned, the Com. of the Society on Hereford cattle, 

 would state, that upon an examination of the stock on the ground, 

 they find that although two bulls were entered on the books as 

 thre-e years old, only one was found on the ground, and of the three 

 entered as two years old, two were, in the opinion of the commit- 

 tee, from their general appearance and the usual age marks, de- 

 clared to be three years old, and not entitled to compete as two 

 ymrs old. The committee, not deeming it proper to alter the 

 entries as made upon the books, would respectfully refer the 

 matter to the Executive Committee of the Society for their action, 



GEO. SHEFFER, 

 JAMES REES, 



Sept. Sth.—^At a meeting of the Executive Committee, 

 Resolved^ In relation to the matter contained in the foregoing re- 

 quest, that it be recommitted to the committee with directions, 

 that if, they are satisfied that the bulls referred to, or either o^ 

 them, are not three years old, taking the time of birth as estab- 

 lished by the whole evidence before them, then that they be 

 passed upon as two years old-, otherwise that they be passed. 



By order, B. P. JOHNSOJ^, Sec'y. 



AYRSHIRES. 



The committee on Ayrshire cattle at the Annual Show at Utiea, 

 owing to the excitement usually created upon all that feel an in- 

 terest in an exhibition eo important to the farmers of this State, 

 and country, they then merely awarded the premiums to the 

 animals tliat were in the opinion of your committee, entitled to 

 them, with a promise to report more fully. Ttie one-year old 

 bull and the cow (of late importation) exhibited by James Bro- 

 die, Esq., of Eliisburgh, Jefferson Co., were two animals certain- 

 ly of remarkable beauty in all the fine points that seem to be ne- 

 cessary to make a perfect dairy animal. The citizens of Jefferson, 

 as well as of the State, may well be proud of having two such 

 animals introduced, and it is to be hoped, tliat they will ap- 

 preciate their merits, by exhibiting in due time their offsprings. 

 The two-years old bull exhibited by E. P. Prentice, Esq., of Mount 

 Hope, Albany Co., is an animal of many fine points, the mark« 



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