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pair is injured by legitimate labor. Christian grace is scarcely proof 

 against provocation to wrath and con-sequent abuse to an ill favored, 

 incorrigibly vicious pair of cattle. For our part we cannot conceive a 

 less inviting or more irksome task than that of trying to manage such a 

 pair. We can only educate, elevate and redeem human nature through 

 its better part ; but the task we spoak of furnishes no appeals to the 

 sense of beauty — there are no incitements to carefulness — no quicken- 

 ing of a latent love for improvement — but only occasions for misman- 

 agement, or cruelty, on the part of the hireling teamster. Farmers, 

 educate your sons to know the true principle of matching and training, 

 and put them to school to the best teamsters. If the Agricultural 

 College, now being established at Amherst, shall endow a professorship 

 of ox training, it will answer one of the ends of progressive agriculture. 

 In closing, your Committee would add, that, in view of the energetic 

 and commendable driving shown by the only minor teatnster competing, 

 we concluded to grant him the Society's first premium of five dollars. 



All which is respectfully submitted, for the Committee, 



ALPHEUS B. DAVIS, Chairman. 



STEERS MORE THAN TWO YEARS OLD. 



The Committee on Steers more than two years old, have awarded as 

 follows : 



THREE YEAKS OLD. 



1st premium to J. P. Reed, Princeton, $5 00 



2d premium to G-. 0. Skinner, Princecon, 4 00 



BEST MINOR TEAMSTER. 



1st premium, G. 0. Skinner, Princeton, 4 00 



TWO YEARS OLD. 



1st premium to J. E. Merriam, Princeton, 

 2d premium to A. Gr. Thompson, Princeton, 

 8d premium to J. P. Eced, Princeton, 



TRAINED TWO TEARS OLD. 



1st premium to J. P. Reed, Princeton, 

 Gratuity to A. G. Thompson, Princeton, 



CHARLES K. SAWYER, Chairman. 



