BULLS. 



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beauty. We would say with emphasis, that it is of as 

 much importance that the bull should spring from a race 

 of good milkers as the heifer. The heifer calf has fre- 

 quently been sold at a higher price because the dam was 

 superior for milk, but when tested proved altogether of 

 another blood, thus showing conclusively that the 

 stronger has almost, if net altogether absorbed the 

 •weaker. Not so w^ith the bull calf when thrown into 

 the market; he is some dear bought or far-fetched 

 Ayrshire, Devon or Jersey, and often poor at that. 

 It is not our purpose to discourage the importation of 

 foreign stock, but to encourage the improvement of 

 stock in general. But we cannot now enter into all the 

 minute points on the subject, but hope the time will 

 soon arrive when the relative importance of the animal 

 we speak for will be better understood, and that he may 

 have less to do iu souading his own Horn. 



Your Committee have awarded the premiums as 



follows : 



BLOOD STOCK. 



NORTH DEVON. 



1st, to Nathan Caswell, of Fitchburg, $5,00 



2d; to Wm. 11. Wetherbee, Shirley, 3,00 



JERSEY. 



1st, to C. C. Field, Leominster, 5,00 



GEADE STOCK. 



TWO TEAKS OLD OR MORE. 



1st, to W. W. Watson, Princeton, 5,00 



2d, to Joseph Upton, of Fitchburg, 3,00 



YEARLINGS. 



1st, to Thomas Billings, Lunenburg, 4,00 



2d, to Geo. W. Houghton, Princeton, ^ 2,00 



3d, to Wyman & Sprague, \Vestminster, 1,00 



