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cGi'tainly, and where the services of a pure-bred can be had for 

 a reasonable advance from natives or grades ; it will pay the 

 farmer when he intends his calves for veal, as the increased 

 weight with the form will generally insure a sufficient remune- 

 ration for the extra outlay. Before closing, lest any undervalue 

 a pedigree, allow us to state that the value of a pedigree consists 

 in its guarantee that the animal is of the race or breed claimed, 

 and has in itself the power of transmitting the qualities for 

 which it is itself noted, and that the longer the pedigree, the 

 quality being the same, the more sure your animal is to trans- 

 mit its qualities. As the object of all agricultural societies is 

 to improve our agricultural interest, it becomes a question of 

 importance whether we offer premiums for grade or mongrel 

 bulls at all, for by so doing we are encouraging the rearing of 

 inferior animals. A. 0. Cummins, Chairman. 



Among the Shorthorns exhibited at the fair of tliis society 

 were the following : The Shorthorn bull, 



"Monitor." (Frontispiece, Abstract.) 

 Red and white, bred by Sam'l Thorne, Thorndale, Washington 

 Hollow, Dutchess Co., N. Y„ the property of H. G. White, South 

 Fraraingham, Middlesex Co., Mass. Calved January 26, 1860. Got 

 by 2d Duke of Thorndale, 2788 (vol. 4, p. 89, A. H. B.)— out of 

 Acacia (bred by Mr. Tliorne,) by 2d Grand Duke, 2181 (12961) 

 (vol. 3, p. 222— Aurora (bred in Eng. by G. D. Trotter,) by 3d Duke 

 of York (10166)— Allspice by 2d Duke of Northumberland (3G46)— 

 Young Amazon by Crusader (934) — Amazon by Sultan (1485) — 

 Bellona by Mars (411)— Rolla by North Star (458.)— A H. B. vol. 6. 



" Aba." (Frontispiece, Secretary's Report.) 

 Roan, bred by S. T. Taber, Chestnut Ridge, N. Y., the property of 

 H. G. White, South Framingham, Middlesex County, Mass. Calved 

 .June 23, 1857. Got by Earl of Warwick, 465, Atlanta Sd by Logan, 

 2, 652 — Atlanta by Enchanter, (372.9) — Adeline by Young Comet, 

 (3437)— Emma by Wellington, (683)— Annabella by Major, (398)— 

 Ada by Denton, (198) — Aurora by Comet, (155.) — A. H. B. vol. 5. 



" Lady Lathrop." (p. 184.) 

 Red, bred by A. O. Cummins, West Millbury, the property of H. G. 

 White, South Framingham, Mass. Calved November 10,1859. Got 



