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hovels are far to be preferred to warm stables for tlieir shel- 

 ter the first; second and third winters. 



Nahum M. Tribou, Chairman. 



BRISTOL. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



And the horse, too, about which your committee are to pass 

 judgment, is by far the most noble and useful domestic animal; 

 and scarcely can there be a spot found upon the whole earth, 

 where civilized man is found, but the horse is also found as his 

 assistant and companion, and rarely can a man be found whose 

 generous feelings are not excited in view of a noble horse ; and 

 equally as rare will it be to find a man (and may I not add 

 lady also) whose blood does not boil with indignation, when a 

 greater brute (in the form of man) is guilty of cruelty towards 

 him. No matter how many other modes of conveyance may 

 be invented, the horse will always be the servant of man. 



It seemed to be supposed by many, that the application of 

 steam-power in moving the vast amount of freight and baggage 

 over the country and to our cities, would lessen the demand 

 for horses as beasts of burden, and that they would decline 

 in price, but the contrary is the result j for a very great por- 

 tion of the freight, bagga !,e, and passengers which are carried 

 by steam, do not arrive at their exact place of destination 

 without the use of horses, and both demand and price have 

 largely increased. 



C. Leonard, Chairman. 



SHEEP. 



FRANKLIN. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Fourteen entries were made, of South Down, Irish Smut, 

 French and Spanish Merino, and Silesian variety — all of which 

 specimens were of great excellence. 



