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BLOOD STOCK. 



fitted for the shambles as is often met with. Also 

 Lady Lathrop, a very superior heifer, being of nearly 

 perfect symetry, and bidding fair to be one of the 

 deepest milkers. Also Dora Haynes, a fine heifer, 

 together with Highland Maid, 2d, and other noteworthy 

 heifers and cows. And we recommend $25,00 as milage 

 to Mr. White as a partial token of our appreciation of 

 his fine stock which we are fully aware has added very 

 materially to our show. 



Were we to close this report without alluding to the 

 lesson which this day's show has taught, we should fail 

 of discharging our duty to other members of this 

 Society and the farmers of this vicinity. 



Has any man carefully examined the stock in the 

 pens and the steers at the posts, to-day without coming 

 to the inevitable conclusion that "Blood will tell V 



Lay aside the beauty, the pleasure to the eye, which, 

 by the way, to a person with an eye in his head and a 

 soul in his body is very pleasing, and take the economi- 

 cal view, we have seen thoroughbred cows and cows of 

 high grade, the get of pure bred bulls, which show the 

 unmistakable marks of being great producers of milk, 

 many of which having from one to four of their 

 offspring on the ground, all of which have inherited the 

 characteristics of their respective breeds, and with an 

 anatomy so skillfully arranged that they readily take 

 on flesh in the most desirable points, thereby making 

 a greater percentage of high priced or valuable flesh, 

 which is readily appreciated by the butcher, in proof of 

 which you have but to visit Cambridge, Brighton, or 

 New York markets and see with what ready sale 

 animals, high up in "blood" meet, while the poor, flat 

 ribbed, heavy offaled "scrubs" are sold late in the day 

 and at prices that never pay the feeder, if in fact they 



