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cows, by always selecting the choicest animals to be put to 

 thorough bred bulls of a chosen blood. Care should be taken, 

 however, not to mix many bloods. If, for instance, a Jersey 

 bull be selected to improve the quality of our native stock, 

 do not expose your heifer calves of his to get to any other 

 than a bull of the same blood ; thus one may, in time, build 

 up a breed yielding a large quantity of milk of the very 

 choicest quality. 



Some of the contributors to the show of this year, attached 

 importance to the fact, that their yearling bulls had served, in 

 the one case, ninety and odd, and in the other, seventy and 

 odd cows within the year. It is not good policy, in our opin- 

 ion, to use a bull at all, before he is a twelvemonth old ; but 

 if from necessity used at any time before that period, and for 

 a twelvemonth afterward, it is well to use him spariiigly. 

 The abuse of his powers at an early age, tells on the animal, 

 sooner or later, and on his get. 



In using bulls, farmers should know that a single leap, if 

 thorough, is as effectual and is better than two or three. One 

 of the best points of a bull, (assurances of which should be 

 required of exhibitors,) is, that he is a sure stock getter. Every 

 one, who has a stable of cows, knows the annoyance caused 

 by sending a cow two or three times to no purpose ; and to 

 the milk farmer, this grows beyond a mere inconvenience, and 

 becomes a severe pecuniary loss, forcing him sometimes to 

 purchase a new cow to fill the place of one that, by the bull's 

 inefficiency, failed to " come in" in season. 



All which is respectfully submitted, 



William S. King, Chairman. 



Heifers. 



The committee on heifers have the pleasure of reporting 

 that the number of competitors for the premiums is twenty- 

 seven, who have offered thirty-nine for examination ; and we 

 take great pleasure in saying that many of them are of superior 

 merit. We have, after a careful examination, awarded the 

 premiums as follows : 

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