REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



THOROUGH-BRED STOCK. 



Your committee, having made its awards, can not forbear 

 some remarks growing out of the occasion of its coming together. 

 Its members were fehcitously chosen for the impartial perform- 

 ance of its duties, four of them being non-residents of the county, 

 and one of them being a breeder of Short-horn, or Durham stock ; 

 another of Ayrshires, and another of Jerseys, and strangers to the 

 particular stock exhibited at Fitchburg. The arrangements iov 

 the examination of the stock cannot be too highly commended, 

 differing, as they did, from most of those at our County Fairs, 

 and allowing the committee to pursue their labors without mo- 

 lestation, and without the necessity of hunting on the field for 

 the cattle desired. We were very agreeably surprised by the 

 show of Short-horns and Ayrshires, owned in Fitchburg, and 

 could hardly realize that amid the incessant toil and watchful- 

 ness consequent upon the employments of so prosperous a man- 

 ufacturing community, sufficient attention could be given to the 

 raising up of such noble herds. 



As the foundation of all our national prosperity is based upon 

 ao'ricultural pursuits, nothing can be more commendable in our 

 merchants and manufacturers than their encouragement, and as 

 all branches of protective industry are mutually related and mu- 

 tually dependent — as every laborer who is employed at the forge, 

 in the mill or factory, must be provided with food and raiment, — 

 it conduces to the convenience and prosperity of the whole to 



