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STEERS. 



The Committee award the first premium of $6, to Joseph 

 S. Howe, of Methiaen, for his three year olds. 



Second premium of $5, to George B. Loring, of Salem, for 

 his three year old Ayrshire (twin) Steers. 



Charles Rogers, James P. King, Jonathan Berry, Samuel 

 Merrill, Richard S. Bray, Committee. 



HEIFERS. 



Your Committee are well aware that their awards will not 

 be satisfactory to some of the competitors. In attempting to 

 decide which is the best animal, when the Short Horns, the 

 Alderueys and Ayrshires come in competition, the preferences 

 of different members of the Committee for a particular breed, 

 will make it difficult to institute a fair comparison. If one 

 member of the Committee has come to the conclusion that 

 the Ayrshire is the best cow for this county, it will not be 

 easy for him awaid the first premium to an Alderney heifer, 

 however promising she may be. We will not attempt to say 

 how the offers of premiums for heifers should be changed ; 

 but we think the duty of the Committee would be much 

 more pleasant to themselves, and satisfactory to the public, 

 if they were only to decide which is the best animal of a 

 particular breed, instead of saying which is the best of all 

 the different breeds exhibited. 



Here the question naturally arises, how ftir the Society 

 should direct its efibrts and funds to the encouragement of 

 raising our dairy stock? If it can be shown that we can 

 buy our Milch Cows cheaper than we can raise them, this 

 fact alone does not prove that it would not be better for the 

 community for us to give more attention to stock raising. The 



