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REPORTS, &C. 



FAT CATTLE. 



The Committee award as follows : 



Joseph Kittredge, North Andover, 1st 2)remlum, $12. 



C. P. Mighill, Rowley, 2d premium, $10; do. do., 3d 

 premium, $t3. 



Committee — Albert Titcoinb, G. AV. Herrick, Jonathan 

 Chapman. 



BULLS. 



The Committee on Bulls woidd report : 



The number of Bulls of various breeds Mas quite large and 

 the quality was very superior. For many years there has not 

 been so good an exhibition of these animals in the county, 

 and your committee congratulate the farmers upon the mani- 

 festly increasing interest in cattle-breeding, and on the wise 

 policy they have adopted of selecting males of a high standard. 

 It is nnusual for us to find at our exhibition, a valuable young 

 Shorthorn, several first class Ayrshires, and numerous excel- 

 lent Jerseys, all so good as to perplex the committee in their 

 judgment, as was the case nt this time. It has been no easy 

 task to award the premiums ; but the committee have carefully 

 considered the points of the animals submitted to them, their 

 age, and the length of time during which they might be use- 

 ful for breeding purposes ; and with regard to the last con- 

 sideration they have, other things been equal, given the pref- 

 erence to the younger bulls. The Jersey Bulls, for iustance, 



