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XI. FOR IMPROVING OUR NATIVE BREED OF 



CATTLE. 



|c3^The following premiums were oiTered in 1 823, to be awar- 

 ded in 1828. Similar premiums were offered in 1825, to be 

 awarded in 1829 and in 1830. They are thus stated. 



To the person who shall prodiice at the public exhibition of the 

 Society, in either of the years 1828, or 1829, or 1830, any num- 

 ber of milch cows, not less than four, of our native breeds, show- 

 ing manifest improvement therein, by an important increase in 

 the quantity, and maintaining, at least, if not improving, the good 

 qualihj of milk; the latter to be tested by the quantities of butter 

 made in the five months next preceeding the exhibition — 



For the best _ - - - thirty dollars. 



For the next best - - - twenty-five dollars. 



For the third _ - - - twenty dollars. 



To the person who shall produce as aforesaid, the best pair of 

 working oxen, or well grown and well trained steers, raised in 

 the County, and improved on the principles hereinafter mention- 

 ed, ----- tiventy doUa^^s. 



For the second best - - - fifteen dollars. 



For the third - - - - ten dollars. 



To the person who shall produce as aforesaid, the best bull of 

 our native breed, raised in the County, and improved on the same 

 principles, _ - - - twenty dollars. 



For the second best - - - fifteen dollars. 



For the third _ - - ten dollars. 



NATIVE BREED OF CATTLE. 



REMARKS. 



It should be constantly borne in mind, that the Society has 

 been formed for the purpose of effecting imiwovements, in every 

 branch of husbandry. Chance in breeding, or a lucky purchase, 

 may give a farmer a superior cow; hut unless her offspring he rai- 

 $edy we shall make no advance; and fifty years hence, the quahty- 



