8,4 



No. 124. D. M. Uhl, Ypsilanti, heifer and calf, 1st prem., $5 00 



No. 125. " " " " 2d prem., 4 00 



No. 40. Nathan Davis, Troy, " " 3d prem., 3 00 



D. NICHOLS, 

 G. W. COLLINS, 

 JAMES B. ST. JOHN. 



Committee. 



CLASSES VIII <k IX. -WORKING OXEN AKD CATTLE. 



Report of ExaminiDg Committee, at the Society's Fifth Annual Fair, 

 September 28tb, 29th, and 30th, 1853: 



We the undersigned, Viewing Committee on Working Cattle and 

 Steei-s, beg leave to submit to the Executive Committee of the Fifth 

 Annual Fair of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, the following re- 

 ports The certificate on trained cattle, to ■which we awarded the pre- 

 mium, is hereunto annexed. 



We deem the report sufliciently full and complete : \ 



No. 309. Trained Steers — Broke by Orlando Avery. When first 

 yoked, they were put behind a pair of oxen, but did not allow the ox- 

 en to pull upon them, and used until they could be controlled somewhat 

 by the whip. They were then driven in the yoke until they would 

 mind ; then they were unyoked and driven single until they were per- 

 fectly handy. When driven in the yoke they were changed on either 

 side, to make them handy to work either way. One of the steers was 

 broke last November ; it took four days to break him. The other was 

 broke last week ; it took four days. The one broke last, had been yoked 

 a few times, but it had been of no service in breaking him. 



I certify that the above statement is true. 



F. V. SMITH. 



No. 211. C. W. Green, Farmington, working oxen, 4 years old, 



l8t prem., Silver Medal and $10 00 



No. 88. E. M. DeForest, Ann Arbor, working oxen, 4 years old, 



2d prem., 10 00 



No. 208. L. B. Shaw, Kalamazoo, working oxen, 3 years old, 



3d prem., ^ 8 00 



