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Sampson, whose merits are quite too remarkable to be passed 

 by ill silence. It is \9h months old and weighs 1400 lbs., was 

 raised in North Providence, R. I., and is owned by Mr. Lyman. 

 This animal is imposing in size, perfectly symmetrical in shape, 

 and seems to possess, in a rare degree, all the qualities of a 

 good breeder. Its small head, well cut neck and wide breast — 

 long, straight back and well rounded body, and neat clean limbs, 

 rendered it, on the whole, superior to any of its competitors and 

 highly deserving of commendation.] 



The chairman wishes to say a word, on his own responsibil- 

 ity, on the raising of bulls — as he cannot look back thirty 

 years and see so much improvement in the breeds of cattle as 

 many imagine there is. It is too often the case that a farmer 

 has two or three animals of the right kind, while all his others 

 are the reverse for the want of a good bull in his neighborhood. 

 It is very important that all our bulls be of good form and pure 

 breeds, even if their calves are to be fattened and slaughtered 

 at five or six weeks old — for every calf at that age will be 

 worth one-third more than when the bull is of ill shape and of 

 a worthless breed. For a remedy for this bad state of things, 

 the following plan is suggested, which would, if carried out, 

 give us almost a different race of cattle from what we now 

 have, and here in Worcester county increase their value thou- 

 sands and tens of thousands of dollars without increasing their 

 numbers: — That all the Agricultural Societies in the comity 

 increase their funds to at least ten thousand dollars — that they 

 all unite in the purchase of a farm with this extra increased 

 fnnd — that this farm be imder the control of the trustees of the 

 societies — that a superintendent be placed on the farm, whose 

 whole business shall be the raising of bulls of the purest blood, 

 from the best of breeds, and to continue raising till every town 

 in the county shall be supplied with, at least, from ten to fif- 

 teen bulls, on such terms as the trustees shall direct. Should 

 the above plan be carried out, the hundreds of little, peaked 

 and ill shaped bulls, that are every year scraped up in the neigh- 

 boring states, would no longer find a market in Worcester 

 county on farms where the owners now say, a bull is a bull. 

 CHARLES BRIGHAM, Chairman. 



