To Nathan Caswell, of Fitchburg, for a two years old 



Bull, the first premium of 4 00 



To S. F. Town, of Westminster, for a two years old 



Bull, the second premium of 2 00 



To Benjamin Wyman, of Westminster, for his yearling 



Devon. Bull, the first premium of 5 00 



To T. Whitney, of Shirley, for his Alderney yearling 



Bull, the second premium of 3 00 



To Joel Page, of Fitchburg, for his Durham yearling 



Bull, the third premium of 2 00 



To F. W. Wright, of Ashby, for his Bull Calf, the 



first premium of 4 00 



To Moses Sawyer, 2d., of Sterling, for his Native Bull 



Calf, the second premium of 3 00 



To Nathan Danforth, of Princeton, for 1-2 Durham 



and 1-2 Ayershire Bull Calf, 1-2 of the third prem. 1 00 

 To Samuel C. Nash, of Princeton, for his Devon. Bull 



Calf, 1-2 of the third premium, 1 00 



Before closing our report, we wish to make a few sugges- 

 tions in relation to this most important animal in the whole 

 range of neat stock. 



We suppose all will admit that he who rears a valuable Bull 

 does much more to improve the stock of his neighborhood, 

 and the whole community, than the farmer who raises a first 

 class heifer, or even five or ten heifers ; for good Bulls, on an 

 average, even in New England, where stock raising is carried 

 on to a limited extent, as compared with the Middle States 

 and the great West, sire from one to two or three and some 

 as high as four or five hundred, even, during the period in 

 which they are kept for cows. Whereas cows, on an average, 

 do not drop more than from four to six calves before they are 

 fattened and slaughtered ; so that if a farmer rears a cow and 

 keeps her till she is eight or ten years old, rearing each year 

 her calf, that proves to be very inferior, the community does 

 not suffer a tenth of the injury that is sustained in every case 

 when a worthless Bull is kept for cows, in a stock raising 



