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cially noticeable for their size and imposing appearance. His 

 two heifers, three years old, in the judgment of the committee, 

 are quite as promising as any which were exhibited, and all 

 bore evidence of good care and judicious breeding. Mr. Rob- 

 jinson's cows, though showing good points, were inferior, both 

 in size and condition, to those of Mr. Ellsworth, but they gave, 

 strongly, the mark of the Durham blood. The cows of Mr. 

 Sheldon, all of native stock but one, and that of the Durham 

 race, had excellent milking points, and considering they had 

 been driven more than fifty miles to the show, while in full 

 milk, were in excellent condition. Mr. Knights' cows, two of 

 native breed, one a cross with tlie Devons and another with the 

 Durliams, shew their good points very favorably, but the old 

 cow of eighteen years, by his own admission, had been kept at 

 least one year too long, and was thin in flesh and obviously 

 failing. 



Mr. Mann's cows, from a herd of twenty-one kept together, 

 did not escape the particular notice of the committee. In 

 blood, they were represented as "grade," and they bore evident 

 marks of the cross of the native with the shorthorns. Some of 

 them had admirable milking points, and certainly all did credit, 

 in their condition and appearance, to the generous keeping they 

 received, according to the statement of their owner, especially 

 during the preceding winter. 



Upon applying the prescribed rules to the statements of the 

 several competitors, in Class No. 1, the committee are unani- 

 mously of opinion, that Mr, Mann has not maintained his claim 

 to competition. Ho has given no account of the manufacture 

 of his milk, except for the first three days of each month, nor of 

 the whole yield of milk, either manfactured or unmanfactured. 

 The rule is explicit and imperative, that, in Classes No. 1 and 

 No. 2, " all tlie milk must be manufactured into butter and 

 cheese, during the whole period of trial," and without this com- 

 pliance on his part, there could be no just comparison and 

 decision between the productiveness, qualities and value of his 

 cows, and the cows of other competitors. In the absence of the 

 account, the presumption is, that, except in one part of the 

 required trial, that of the product of the first three days of the 

 months, tlie milk was neither manufactured, nor the quantity 

 noted, but that, as he states to have been his practice for past 



