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BULLS. 



BULLS. 



Your Committee on Bulls, before entering upon their 

 duty of awarding premiums, would suggest a few 

 thoughts, perhaps not altogether nev/ to the most 

 observing and reflecting, but by a majority almost 

 entirely overlooked. We take pleasure in speaking of 

 the great improvements which have been made within 

 a few years -, and we are confident still more may be 

 expected by bestowing more attention to a combination 

 of good properties in this useful animal. 



Your Committee would further suggest, that the Bull 

 has not received his share of attention ; we can but hope 

 that the days of false delicacy with reference to this 

 animal have forever passed. Several years of observa- 

 tion and experience has led your Committee to conclude 

 that the great, if not the only considerations in rearing 

 the Bull, are form and color. The questions usually 

 asked are, is he of a good color ? has he a good form? 

 While these should not be entirely overlooked, yet other 

 and more important properties should not be neglected. 

 Millions of money have been paid for imported stock 

 when we have as good if not better blood, if properly 

 selected, in our own towns if not in our own barn-yards. 

 Important improvements have been retarded by not 

 seeking a combination of good qualities, which may be 

 easily secured. 



The experience of stock raisers of late years, shows 

 the opinions of those of former times to be erroneous 

 when they asserted, that a cow giving a large flow of 

 milk could have but little flesh. Equally absurd is the 

 doctrine that a bull needs no other recommendation than 



