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tioii is of the race claimed, or with a sprinkling of some other 

 blood of very different form and characteristics, whereby the 

 breeder will surely, sooner or later, be disappointed with his 

 calves, they showing other than the points of a thoroughbred of 

 the race claimed ? We would state that if the restriction is too 

 severe the rules whereby your future committee is to be gov- 

 erned must be made more lenient, a course which we would not 

 be understood as recommending; by any means. For im these 

 modern days when breeders are forming associatioits to guard 

 against spurious pedigrees, and the demand of the public is for 

 i^e/^aM^/few^ica^ec? pedigreed animals, this society should be slow 

 to aid either designing or undesigning parties in palming off 

 animals with doubtful pedigrees, as thoroughbreds. 



"Were we to close this report without alluding to tlie lesson 

 which this day's show has taught, we should fail of discharging 

 our duty to other members of this society and the farmers of 

 this vicinity. 



Has any man carefully examined the stock in the pens and 

 the steers at the posts, to-day, without coming to the inevitable 

 conclusion that " blood will tell ? " 



Lay aside the beauty, the pleasure to the eye, which, by the 

 way, to a person with an eye in his head and a soul in his body 

 is very pleasing, and take the economical view, we have seen 

 thoroughbred cows, and cows of high grade, the get of pure bred 

 bulls, which show the unmistakable marks of being great pro- 

 ducers of milk, many of which having from one to four of their 

 offspring on the ground, all of which have inherited the char- 

 acteristics of their respective breeds, and with an anatomy so 

 skilfully arranged that they readily take on flesh in the most 

 desirable points, thereby making a greater percentage of high- 

 priced or valuable flesh, which is readily appreciated by the 

 butcher, in proof of which you have but to visit Cambridge, 

 Brighton, or New York markets and see with what ready sale 

 animals, high up in " blood " meet, while the poor, flat-ribbed, 

 heavy-offaled " scrubs " are sold late in the day and at prices 

 that never pay the feeder, if in fact they find a sale at all. 



Will any one after viewing the fat cow Aba, shown by Mr. 

 White, tell us that the " native " stock of New England pos- 

 sesses all the characteristics desirable in stock ? We have it from 

 undoubted authority that she never ate hut very little extra 



