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more pains will be taken in the future to make this department 

 as attractive as it is important. There is the material in Nor- 

 folk county to do it ; all that is required is the effort. 



J. H. Robinson, Chairman. 



BRISTOL. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Bulls. — The show of IniUs was not extensive, but of great 

 merit, embracing animals of different breeds, and affording sat- 

 isfactory evidence of an increased regard for good blood, on the 

 part of our breeders, and a determination to improve the stock 

 of our county, and elevate it to a point of excellence not even 

 aimed at a few years ago. 



In no case were the entries for milch cows accompanied by 

 statements such as the rules of the society require ; and your 

 committee unanimously recommend that the money appropri- 

 ated for premiums to cows be divided, according to the follow- 

 ing award, among the proprietors of valuable bulls. This 

 course, your committee believe, will answer the double purpose 

 of encouraging the improvement of the bulls of the county, 

 and emphatically calling attention to the rules of the society 

 that have been too often disregarded, alike by committees and 

 exhibitors. 



The committee, strictly adhering to the rules, could not, as 

 they desired, award the first premium for Devon bulls to Daniel 

 Wilbur, of Somerset, as he failed to submit any statement of 

 the pedigree of his bull. 



No thoroiigh-bred bull of any other breed, " not less than two 

 years old," was exhibited in this class; but your committee rec- 

 ommend gratuities of eight dollars, each, to Benjamin Bodman, 

 of New Bedford, and Joseph S. Fay, Esq., of Woods Hole. 

 The former exhibited his full-blooded Jersey bull, twelve months 

 old, and the latter a full-blooded Jersey IjuII, three years old. 

 The thanks of the society are due to Mr. Fay, for his politeness 

 in sending to our show several fine animals from his herd, not 

 with the expectation of receiving pecuniary rewards, but infiu- 



