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earnings would have been very light indeed had it not been for the 
contests in speed. I here wish to suggest to the board, that we 
give three purses for speed, as follows: One for all stallions, one 
for 3-year-old colts, and one for 4-year-old colts, all owned in the 
state. I do not propose to make the purses large, but sufficient to 
pay expenses. Let the remunerative part of it be glory. I think 
it would be a great stimulant to breeders, and would prove highly 
satisfactory. 
In conclusion, let me thank the judges, owners and drivers who 
so faithfully and patiently assisted me through those terrible ten 
days of rain and mud. * 
DEPARTMENT B.—CATTLE. 
BY GEO. E. BRYANT, SUPERINTENDENT. 
The undersigned, in retiring from the superintendency of the cat¬ 
tle department, desires through you, to say his thanks to the exhib¬ 
itors of neat stock, for their general courtesy and willingness to 
forbear, during the awful wetness of the last fair. A bigger hearted 
set of men than the breeders and showers of neat stock in Wiscon¬ 
sin, don’t live. Their hospitality is larger than the bulls they grow; 
their generosity broad as the prairies upon which they feed. Long 
may they successfully^continue to grow the ponderous Short Horn, 
the beautiful Devon, the milky Ayrshire, the creamy Jersey and the 
muley Galloway. 
The show of cattle at your fair of 1876, as a show, was never sur¬ 
passed in Wisconsin. 
DEPARTMENT C.—SHEEP. 
BY A. A. BOYCE, SUPERINTENDENT. 
While the exhibition in this department in point of numbers was 
not equal to that of last year, it is gratifying to know that in 'the 
quality of the stock exhibited there has been no falling off. Many 
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