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Essex county, to give more attention to beef cattle. 

 The premiums offered are liberal, and will warrant 

 extra attention to their stock. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



RICHARD ADAMS, 

 JOSEPH NEWELL, 

 JAMES CAREY. 

 September 30, 1840. 



ON BULLS. 



The committee on bulls, have attended to that 

 duty, and ask leave to Report: 



That the whole number of bulls, and bull calves, 

 entered, was twenty, the quality of which, taken as 

 a whole, was good; many of them fine animals, and 

 show an improved attention to this class of stock. 

 Your committee have found it rather difficult where 

 there are so many competitors and so few premiums 

 offered on this class of stock, to do justice to their 

 own feelings. They would, therefore, say here that 

 if they have made many large mistakes in their con- 

 clusions, they may be considered errors of the head 

 and not of the heart. 



Your committee recommend that the first premi- 

 um of eight dollars be paid to William S. Marland, 

 of Andover, for his full blood Ayrshire bull, and 

 that the second premium of six dollars be paid to 

 Francis Dodge, of Danvers, for his red, two years 

 old bulL 



The committee would farther state that Mr. Hora- 

 tio C. Merriam, of Tewksbury, presented a fine bull 



