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premiums now offered there shall be another premium offered 

 "For the best bull of any breed or grade for getting dairy stock 

 adapted to the wants and conditions of the Farmers of Hamp- 

 shire county." 



John C. Dillon, Chairman of Committee on Bulls. 



REPORT ON CALVES. 



In another report I have urged the propriety of offering a pre- 

 mium for Grade Bulls, but recalling the vei-y beautiful display of 

 Grade Calves by Thoroughbred Bulls at the last fair, I cannot 

 claim that the rule of using only Thoroughbred bulls has shown 

 other than the most satisfactory results. 



Perhaps few people are more impressed with the value of 

 hereditary virtues in the " Male calf of the herd " than I am ; 

 and my chief argument for extending the offer of premiums to 

 Grade bulls is the belief that the essential properties of abund- 

 ant rich milk, desirable size and shape, hardness, docility, thrifti- 

 ness, and general profitableness are combined and inbred in some 

 of the Grade stock of Hampshire County, in a higher degree than 

 they are in any of the so-called Thoroughbreds, which have been 

 imported into this country from different localities, where they 

 have been raised and cultivated for various purposes, and under 

 various conditions of climate, feed, and management. 



The office of Judge, or Committee of Award, in the Class of 

 Calves, is an exceptionally trying one : and judgment being nec- 

 essarily given on the actual appearance of the young animals, is 

 not likely to be acquiesced in by the defeated exhibitors who 

 know the latent and inherited virtues of their favorites. Un- 

 pleasantly conscious of this liability to disappoint and offend 

 some of those on whose opinions and regard they place a high 



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