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further than individual preference, and here it is prudent to let 

 the subject remain. 



Never before have we been gratified with the sight oT so large 

 a number of milch cows, considered either in relation to their 

 intrinsic value in dollars and cents, as herd book animals, or in 

 respect to their estimated productive qualifications for the dairy. 

 The whole number of entries in this department comprised six- 

 teen single cows, and fifty-three entered as herd cows. 



First on the list, was a group of fourteen splendid full blood 

 Durhams — a mother with her descendants, to the second genera- 

 tion, her youngest but three days old, yet proud of its paternity, 

 and exhibiting in full view with the older members of the family 

 its own ticket of age, and its affinity to a long line of pure 

 blooded ancestry, from undisputed records. The matron of 

 this family dates her genealogical record from Miranda and 

 North America, and upward through the blood of Frederick to 

 Young Denton, North Star, Comet and Henry to Danby, on the 

 paternal side, and claiming maternal descent, by only three 

 removes, from the celebrated and imported Arabella. She has 

 reared seven heifer calves, six of which have become mothers ; 

 eleven of these sustain their mother's title of Yarico, numbered 

 from one to twelve. Young Yarico the 3d, in view of future 

 honors, gave birth, in April last, to a bull, which is recognized 

 under the poetic cognomen of Hiawatha; and the old dam, as 

 if proud of the title, only three days since, added one more, to 

 bear the title of Hiawatha 2d — both of these claim Kirkleaving- 

 ton as their illustrious predecessor. All these were exhibited 

 by Wells Lathrop, Esq., of South Hadley. It would be super- 

 fluous for your committee to record their feelings of admiration 

 of this herd of superior stock — feelings consonant with the 

 expressed opinions of thousands of admiring spectators. The 

 devoted services of the Messrs. Lathrop, for the last several 

 years, in time and money, to introduce, with discriminating care 

 for improvement in valuable points, and especially in dairy 

 qualities, a choice breed of animals, which would concentrate all 

 the prominent improvements made in the distinctive families of 

 Durham blood, entitle them to the gratitude of the community 

 rather than the compliments of your committee, who are not 

 privileged to make an award upon this herd. The directors, we 



