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Your committee cannot express in words their indebtedness to 

 Mr. Thomas Bell, Mr. Ralph Hall, and Capt. John M. Terrier, 

 for their generous aid and assistance during the three days of the 

 cattle show, without which we should have been greatly embar- 

 rassed. Mr. Bell volunteered and took upon himself the most 

 arduous duty of receiving, regulating and posting in the horned 

 cattle department j his order and arrangement met the entire ap- 

 probation of the many exhibitors of the bull family. 



Mr. Hall managed, in his efficient way, the horse department, 

 the duties of which he carried out to the utmost, and in a master- 

 ly manner, highly gratifying to the exhibitors of the stud family. 



Capt. Ferrier volunteered and took charge of the swine and 

 sheep department, and the number of hogs was so great (nearly 

 double that of any former exhibition) that additional pens were 

 required, and which were procured with that promptness and 

 facility so characteristic of the man. 



Your committee are of opinion, and they suggest to the board, 

 that early notice should be given in the newspapers and circulars, 

 of the time and place of holding our cattle show, that farmers, 

 breeders of cattle, and all others taking an interest in it, may be 

 apprised in due season, affording them an opportunity of prepar- 

 ing for the same ;■ by doing so, the number of animals and visitors 

 will be doubled, and our receipts increased in proportion. 



The Board of Agriculture last year increased the price of ad- 

 mission from one to two shillings a visiter ; this worked well, as 

 the result fully shows, and greatly to the benefit of the Institute 

 in a pecuniary point of view. 



The receipts of the cattle show for 1851 were,. .... $721 00 

 While the receipts of the cattle show for 1852 were. . . 1,580 12 



Difference in favor of 1852, $859 12 



Being $148 over and above the whole amount of receipts of 1851. 



The expenditures for 1852 were, $772 62 



" 1851 were, 719 49 



Difference, $52 13 



