REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. IIT 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN, AND HAMPDEN. 



By direction of the Board, the undersigned attended the Cat- 

 tle Fair of the Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Agricultural 

 Society, at Northampton, on the tenth and eleventh of October. 

 They were beautiful and sunny autumnal days, and the people, 

 as they assembled in large numbers, in early morning, seemed 

 joyous and happy. The cattle exhibited were not numerous, 

 but good. J. B. Lyman, of Huntington, presented a three-year- 

 old Hereford bull, weighing nineteen hundred pounds, said to 

 be pure blood. He, however, presented some marks of want of 

 purity of breed ; but was a good animal, and will render great 

 service towards the improvement of the stock of his neighbor- 

 hood. This bull is the sire of a fine bull calf, nine months old, 

 weighing eight hundred and fifty pounds, exhibited by Joseph 

 W. Powers, of Southampton. There was a grade Hereford 

 bull, one year old, owned by Ahira Lyman, of Northampton. 

 This bull handled well, was somewhat narrow in the loin, but, 

 on the whole, was a good animal. Mr. Lyman exhibited four 

 grade Hereford steers, two years old, which give great promise 

 of this breed for the yoke. 



Otis Turner had on the grounds some fine grade Durham 

 steers and heifers. Cephas May presented a yoke of three-year- 

 old Durham steers, weighing thirty-one hundred pounds, large, 

 but long in the legs. 



There were other animals in the pens, good in their class. 

 Of oxen, there were two teams on the grounds, one from South 

 Hadley, of twenty yoke, and one from Easthampton. of twenty- 

 one yoke, all large cattle. Among them was noticed a pair of 

 three-year-old steers, owned by Julius F. Clark, of Easthampton, 

 weighing twenty-seven hundred pounds. A line of ten yoke of 

 fat oxen was exhibited from Westfield, which cannot be equalled 

 in any part of the State, unless it be in the valley of the Con- 

 necticut. One pair, owned by George Taylor, five years old, 

 weighed four thousand seven hundred pounds ; one pair, be- 

 longing to Mr. Buck, weighed five thousand pounds. The 

 whole ten yoke were of superior quality, and attracted universal 

 attention. 



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