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They were three years old, large and thrifty. As there were no pre- 

 miums offered for this description of stock, the committee award a 

 gratuity to Mr. Field, of $25. 



Ceeampots. — The committee were requested by one of the officers 

 of the Board, to examine some specimens of Col. Jaques's " Creampot " 

 stock exhibited on this occasion. They were a cow, a yearling heifer, 

 and a bull calf. These cattle have been bred by Col. J. for upwards 

 of thirty years, from a cross made between the imported short-horn 

 bull Ccelebes, and a (so-called) native cow. The cow here exhibited 

 is large, rather heavy in bone, but of fair symmetry, with a yellow 

 skin, rather too thin, but mellow. Her general appearance is indica- 

 tive of good dairy properties, which Col. J. assures us she possesses, 

 although he made no special statement in regard to her milk or butter. 

 The heifer is of good size, and of good appearance, as a milker, as 

 well as neat in form. The bull calf is from the cow just spoken of, 

 and his sire was also from the same cow — thus making the calf in, 

 question three-fourths of the blood of his dam. He is large enough, 

 has a neat head, good limbs, a mellow, but too thin skin, with fine, 

 soft hair. His first ribs are too flat, and he is too thin through the 

 chest, but in other respects his shape is not faulty. The color of all 

 these animals is red, as is that of all Col. J. has bred of this family for 

 many years. They have been bred from very close affinities, of which 

 the calf here alluded to, is an instance. 



The chairman of your committee had intended to have made a more 

 particular report in regard to Col. Jaques's cattle, esjDecially in refer- 

 ence to the system on which they have been bred, together with a 

 statement of the results as developed by the animals from generation 

 to generation ; but circumstances have hitherto precluded the perform- 

 ance of that labor, and it is therefore for the present postponed. 

 San FORD Howard, of Boston, 

 Charles Pomeroy, of Northfield, 

 Elias Grout, of Ashland, 

 George M. Barrett, of Concord, 

 Elijah M. Reed, of Tewksbury, 



Committee. 



The next in order on the premium list were 



THE JERSEYS. 



The importation of Jersey cattle into this State has heen more 

 extensive within the last ten years than that of any other breed, 

 and the show of Jerseys at the State Fair was probably the best 

 ever made in this country. 



