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many of the steers, that they might be the progeny of a bull of 

 Mr. Anderson, of Shelburne, known as the Northumberland, 

 and if I have rightly traced his pedigree, is second from a bull 

 imported by Mr. Prentice, of Albany, and is considered a pure 

 Durham. There was also a young Durham bull from Mr. 

 Lothrop's stock, of South Hadley. Also an older one said to be 

 Durham, known as Champion ; there were also Jersey and grade 

 bulls partaking more or less of the five distinct varieties of 

 a comparatively late importation of cattle. There was a herd 

 of Jersey cattle imported by George Bird, Esq., of New York 

 city, consisting of cows, bulls, and heifers, from Mr. Stoughton, 

 of Gill ; also another herd from the farm of Gov. Cushman, of 

 Bernardston, representing seven generations, and showing no 

 deterioration as they have come along down ; they are grades 

 having incorporated in them the blood of the Durham and 

 Devon with what are sometimes called native, a term which one 

 Essex man has defined as meaning stock which you can't prove 

 to be any thing else. 



I did not notice among the several flocks of sheep on exhibi- 

 tion, more than one animal that I considered a full blood, and 

 that was a ram of the South Down variety; there might have 

 been others. There were in the pens some fine grade sheep. 



The articles in the hall did credit to the farmers, the farmers' 

 wives and daughters of Franklin County, and their success on 

 this occasion is sufficient to encourage them to persevere and 

 keep up the interest already awakened. 



The second day of the show was more particularly directed 

 to the exhibition of that noble and useful animal the horse. A 

 large number of stallions, breeding mares and colts, of various 

 ages were shown, which shows that the county are turning their 

 attention to this portion of farm stock. From all the examina- 

 tion I was enabled to make, there did not seem to be that sys- 

 tem in breeding which was so marked in the rearing of cattle. 

 In the rearing of the cattle there seemed to be a standard, per- 

 fect form, large size, and disposition to fatten. The colts 

 seemed to come up rather accidental ; they had no stallions or 

 mares ; although they might be considered good, they were not 

 particularly prominent. There were colts among the collection 

 that will make valuable horses, that will command high prices. 



The committee on horses examined those broken to the liar- 



