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on as producing superior milkers, pray let us have them, 

 that we may not be disappointed and discouraged when we 

 undertake to raise at considerable expense, a good heifer from 

 a good cow. What we stand very much in need of, in this as 

 in other matters relating to agriculture, is that most highly 

 esteemed commodity, science. 



The Ayrshire stock have been much extolled for their milk- 

 ing properties. The Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin Agri- 

 cultural Society, was presented with a sire of this breed nearly 

 three years since, by the Massachusetts Society, but where is 

 the man who is rearing an individual heifer from him, with 

 full confidence that she will make a first rate cow ? So weak 

 is our faith in this matter, that even this animal, imported at 

 great expense, and his dam probably from some of the best 

 milkers in Scotland, has been lightly esteemed by some of the 

 leading members of that society ; and a iew months since, it 

 was deemed inexpedient longer to give him a support. He is, 

 however, still in their possession at Hadley, and your commit- 

 tee would strongly urge upon all who may obtain calves by 

 him, the importance of giving the stock a fair trial, hoping that 

 a decided improvement in our breed of milkers may be the 

 result. 



THEOPHILUS P. HUNTINGTON, Chairman. 



Steers. 



The committee say that the two years' old, were a superior 

 lot, all fair and some very fine. The weight of four pairs was 

 as follows ; the first weighed 2600 pounds ; the second 2470 

 pounds ; the third 2390 pounds ; the fourth 2400 pounds. 



Fat Cattle. 



The committee (Levi Stockbridge, chairman.) say that the 

 business of fattening cattle is important and extensive in this 



