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public spirit, and at much personal inconvenience and trouble, 

 placed in the pens one half-blood Hereford, and three full-blood 

 imported Alderney cows ; together with other individuals of his 

 Jersey stock. The cows were larger and in higher condition 

 than those of Mr. Salisbury. Not being raised within the 

 county, they could not be received in competition for either of 

 the society's premiums. In consideration of the care of Mr. 

 Aldrich in procuring the stock, and his liberality in presenting 

 it for examination, on the occasion, the committee recommend 

 the presentation to him of a set of " Coleman's European Agri- 

 culture." 



The committee were much struck with the appearance of 

 several animals in the pens, from the herd of that most spirited 

 and intelligent young farmer, Doct. Joseph Burnett, of South- 

 borough. They were fine specimens of Durham, Devon and 

 Alderney breeds, and among them a Devon cow of most remark- 

 able size and beauty. No better looking cattle were at the show. 

 The committee understood that they were here only for exhibi- 

 tion, and their generous proprietor certainly contributed his 

 full share of gratification to those who had an opportunity to 

 inspect them. 



Our intelligent, and always active co-worker in the trusts of 

 the society, Harvey Dodge, Esq., of Sutton, had in the pens a 

 beautiful Devon cow, five years old, raised in Vermont. The 

 committee saw with satislaction other evidences also of his con- 

 stant regard to the interests and reputation of the society. 



The committee cannot doubt, from the appearance and out- 

 ward points of excellence of the many remarkably promising 

 cows exhibited, that all of the above rewards might have been 

 earned, by a very reasonable amount of care and labor on the 

 part of some of the proprietors. With little attention, the 

 requisitions of the trustees are of easy observance. They are 

 promulgated with all the publicity which can be given to them, 

 in handbills, posters, and otherwise ; and those who would be 

 competitors have the same notice of these prerequisites to a 

 premium, as they have that there is to be a cattle show. Nor 

 can it be complained of, that the society seek as an equivalent 

 for the liberal sums of twenty-five dollars, or fifteen dollars, or 

 twelve or ten, or even any smaller amount from tlieir treasury, 

 that information which is the only purpose of the offer of a pre- 



