THE EXHIBITION. 



The Cattle Show and Exhibition was held at Lawrence, 

 Sept. 25th and 26th, 1877. 



REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, &c. 



FAT CATTLE. 



The Committee on Fat Cattle have attended to their duty 

 and report that but one pair was entered, and that by Wm. 

 Peters of North Andover, and they award to him the first 

 premium of $12. 



The Chairman of the Committee being absent, the duty of 

 making out the report fell on one poorly qualified for that 

 duty ; but we would say, that where we see so many oxen 

 around our show, in the town teams, and ploughing teams, 

 worthy of a premium for fat cattle, we regret that the owners 

 of them do not enter them as such. 



The export of beef, which will be likely to increase rather 

 than decrease, has raised the price of beef to that point which 

 it will be for the interest of the farmers to look after. When 

 good beef brings from nine to ten dollars per hundred, and 

 corn can be bought for sixty-five cents per bushel, a farmer 

 who keeps a pair of oxen for his own comfort and convenience 

 in doing his work, and does not work them very hard, can 

 well ajSbrd to buy meal and give them, and in from six to 

 twelve months have them good beef, and make a good profit 

 on the outlay. We are of the opinion that at present prices 

 of beef and grain, it will pay the farmers to look more to 

 this branch of husbandry. 



Committee — John P. Foster, Albert Titcomb, J. Z. Gordon. 



