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liave no good oxen. Your Committee bad still another office 

 to fulfil, viz: to judge of trained steers. There was no 

 competition in this department, as there was but one pair of 

 one-year-olds entered. But they were truly worthy of much 

 commendation for the perfection to which they had been 

 brought, being just as manageable out of the yoke as in it, 

 and each as much at home on one side as the other, in fact 

 performing anything required of them. The steers entered 

 were owned by William W. Benson, of Princeton, a 

 minor, to whom we award the premium of $3 ; and in 

 consideration of the peculiar, and in these days very singular 

 circumstances in which he presents himself to our notice, we 

 recommend a gratuity of $5, two in money and three in 

 books, to be selected and presented by the President and 

 Secretary of our Society, in order to encourage him in the 

 laudable and very useful pursuit to which he devotes himself 

 and his hard earnings. Training streers may seem a very 

 simple and common place affair, but there is no more im- 

 portant, useful, or indeed more profitable department in 

 raising stock. Well broke oxen are vastly more valuable 

 than those which are merely made to go from fear of the 

 lash, as is too often the case, aside from preventing the vexa- 

 tion, ill feeling, much pounding and some swearing that is 

 caused thereby. The idea that cattle are susceptible of train- 

 ing, that they are sensible of kind treatment, and that they 

 have good qualities and dispositions that may be developed 

 instead of bad ones, is becoming more and more apparent, as 

 men take more pride in their good looks and condition, as well 

 as their performances; and as this increases, more care and 

 attention will be paid to matching, thus increasing their 

 beauty as well as their value and usefulness. 



The award of the Committee on three years old, two years 

 old and trained Steers, is as follows : 



THREE YEARS OLD. 



To Josiah Page, of Westminster, the first premium of $4,00 



" Henry Boyles, of Princeton, the second premium of 3,00 



, *' Joel Hay ward, of Ashby, the third premium of 2,00 



