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To Moses Clark for a pair of yearling steers, deemed very good, 

 the Committee recommend a gratuity of - - 3 dollars. 



The number of cattle at the Show, was not so great ae in some 

 former years, but they were perhaps not inferior in quality. The 

 milch cows were considered very good. The Committee regretted 

 hat so icw cows and oxen were seen at the exhibition, except the 

 oxen at the ploughing match, where the teams were more numerous 

 than usual. It is true that the farmers in Essex do not raise so 

 much of their own stock as those in other agricultural counties. 

 But Essex can and ought to excel in the products of tlie dairy, in 

 the number and excellence of its milch cows, and in its working 

 oxen. No articles, which the farmer brings to market, command a 

 moro ready sale than butter and cheese, especially the former. 

 None have better sustained their prices during an almost universal 

 depression of agricultural produce, as well as of other commodities. 



In Worcester, and in some other counties, great numbers of the 

 best working oxen are brought together on these anniversaries. If 

 the patriotic farmers of Essex would imitate this example, it would 

 add much to the interest, as well as to the utility of these exhibi- 

 tions. Few counties possess greater advantages for raising good 

 oxen, or a soil on which they can be more profitably employed, or 

 can furnish a more ready sale for them, whether in the condition of 

 working oxen or fat ones. 



The Committee are of opinion, that there are many animals in 

 this county equal if not superior to some which obtained the 

 premium. If the owners choose to keep them at home, and suffer 

 the premium to be given to their neighbours, for inferior animals, 

 they have nobody but themselves to blame. 



FREDERICK HOWES, Chairman. 

 Haverhill, Oct, 1, 1829. 



JEREMIAH STICKNEY'S STATEMENT. 



The cow offered, by the subscriber, was purchased by him in the 

 spring of 1828. She was bred in West-Newbury, and was eight 

 years old last spring, as appears by an accompanying certificate. 

 This Cow was considered by her former ov/ner, as very remarkable 

 iox the calves she brought, and for the quantity and quality of the 

 milk she gave. She gave, kept only on hay, milk up to the time of 



