26 STEERS MORE THAN TWO YEARS OLD. 



THREE YEARS OLD SREERS. 



To J. P. Reed of Princeton, 1st premium, 

 To P. M. Myrick of Princeton, 2d premium. 

 To W. E. Beaman of Princeton, od premium, 



MINOR TEAMSTERS. 



To Myron Beaman of Princeton, 1st premium, 

 To Merton Beaman of Princeton, 2d premium, 



TWO YEARS OLD STEERS. 



To N. B. Reed of Princeton, 1st premium. 

 To Franklin Nourse of Sterling*, 2d premium, 

 To J. P. Reed of Princeton,. 3d premium, 



STEERS TRAINED, TWO YEARS OLD. 



To J. P. Reed of Princeton, 1st premium, 4 00 



2d premium — None to compete. 



To the Society, to competitors and tlie general public, it is believed 

 committees owe a fair statement of all the points wbicli have borne any 

 considerable weight in tlieir decisions ; and with the presentation of 

 these, and a few incidental suggestions, your Committee will hope to 

 receive " an honorable discharg'e." 



If any spectator had doubted the practicabihty of ox-training, or the 

 wisdom of appropriating a part of the Society's funds to stimulate 

 efforts towards a higher standard, this year's exhibition of working 

 cattle was well calculated to remove those doubts and to elicit approval. 



Of the several trials of working steers it is but just to say that the 

 several pairs appeared to fairly represent the character and degree of 

 then' training ; but at the same time your Committee cannot refrain 

 from expressing regret that the performance of the pairs belonging to 

 J. P. Reed was so much superior to that which received the second 

 premium, that the making a just award was an easy matter. As your 

 Committee define their province, awards in this class have very little 

 reference to points which would be regarded if the cattle were entered 

 only as standing stock ; yet as really superior training is so largely 

 dependent on good matching and symmetrical build, we take pleasure 

 in citing as an illustration the before-mentioned steers of J. P. Reed. 



Lest our awards and report should fall under the suspicion of flowing 

 from the tastes and predilections of "fancy men," and "gentlemen 

 farmers," (in view of some fanciful feats which our friend Reed's 

 steers were made to exhibit, subsequent to their legitimate trials,) we 

 would state that our decisions were made up without reference to such 

 exploits, as we were in duty bound. 



Indeed, it is on purely utilitarian grounds that we award the highest 



