368 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Report of the Committee. 



Cattle for the Stall. — Your committee found nine entries 

 of cattle for the stall, all of which reflected credit to the owners, 

 and were highly creditable to the show ; and as they passed the 

 array of cattle arranged in the several teams, noticed with 

 pleasure the large number bearing prominently those points 

 and features that are now conceded as established principles for 

 profitable feeders. 



Your committee regret that but one of the competitors com- 

 plied with the regulations of the society in regard to furnishing 

 statements of the maimer and cost of the feed of their animals ; 

 but as the owners were with the cattle, and ready to give the 

 committee any information required, that was allowed as a sub- 

 stitute. 



Thos. J. EiELD, Chairman. 



Report of the Committee. 



Heifers. — Your committee having attended to the duties 

 imposed upon them, rendered more onerous by the discharge of 

 the committee on heifer calves, which rendered their labors 

 doubly arduous, yet feeling unwilling to evade the responsibility, 

 submit the following report : — 



As many gi-eater and wiser than us, have written upon the 

 improvement of neat stock with great success, we do not flatter 

 ourselves as being able to elicit any thing new ; yet, feeling the 

 subject to be one of great importance, it being a law of nature 

 that like produces like, as is the undeveloped germ, so will be 

 the future reality, we feel inclined to add a few hints, which, if 

 it does not " elicit any thing new," may yet revive old impres- 

 sions, and serve to refresh the memory. 



While much depends upon the origin and breed of heifers, we 

 are of the opinion that the manner of rearing, training and cul- 

 tivation of the same, exerts great influence in the final develop- 

 ment. While no good farmer will neglect to use proper care in 

 the management of his stock, yet there are kinds of food particu- 

 larly adapted to the development of milking properties, and at 

 the same time maintain a healthy and vigorous growth of the 



