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numbers and quality to those exhibited at any previous exhibi- 

 bition, and further that one of our number had the honor of serv- 

 ing as one of the judges on long wooled sheep at the recent fair 

 of the Sta.te Society at Utica, and he stakes his reputation, so far 

 as to say that our exhibition of long wools is not inferior to that. 

 There were many of them so nearly equal that it required the 

 strictest scrutiny to decide upon their respective merits ; but 

 having the duty t-o perform we acted according to the best of our 

 judgment, regardjess of any consequences, pjher than those vs-hieh 

 follow the consciousness <>f having endeavored to do justice to 

 the competitors. 



Your committee further report that they find themselves re- 

 stricted, by the rules of the society, from awarding premlunig to 

 many which were really meritoriou3 animals. There were several 

 pens of yearling ewes (very fine) which your committee consider 

 highly worthy of commendation, and the spirited breeders of suoii 

 animals are deserving the praise and encouragement of every 

 former of Dutchess county. May success attend their efforts. 



ISAAC E. HAVILAND, ) 

 STEPHEN HAIGHT, !> Ct^w.mittee. 

 AMOS B. KNAPP, J 



Kepout of tiie Committee on Fruits. 



Apples. — The exhibit ioa of apples was quite extensive, and it 

 indicates an increasing degree of attention to the cultivation of 

 this pleasant and almost indisi)ensable kind of fruit Wliile the 

 committee was pleased to observe in the collection specimens of 

 the most recent and favorite kinds, thoy cannot avoid ex- 

 pressing the hope that their pomological friends will not neglect 

 the old varieties, whose excellent qualities should ensure them a 

 prominent place in every c»rchard They regret that, in many 

 instances, sufHcient care was not observed by the contributors to 

 label each variety with its proper name. Without this precau- 

 tion, one of the grOat objects of the society will be frus(rat>E)d. 

 For it is not enough tliat there should be^a n.ere exhibition of 

 fruit in ma?s. It is desirable to know the effects of soil, l-:ititude, 

 and exposure, in nodifyiiig thi' yi-operties of each kind. It i& 

 also important that the identity of each variety should be pre- 



