The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Connecticut Courant.

Cattle show and fair.—On Tuesday the 31st October, agreeable to public notice previously given, a Cattle Show was attended at Granby, Turkeyhills parish. The object of this exhibition was to bring together the Working Oxen, and especially the young Steers designed for service, owned in the vicinity, for the purpose of comparing them, and affording the owners an opportunity of exchanging in such a manner as to match different pairs, as to colour size, &c.

Nothing need be said to convince an understanding farmer of the advantages arising from matching his cattle designed for labor, and that too while they are young; it being so obvious that they are more serviceable and more valuable.

Very many young bullocks of superior strength and beauty are at this season of the year, particularly, sent to the slaughter-yard; while others, equally good for that purpose, but every other way inferior, are kept for service. This is occasioned, in a great measure, from the circumstance that the different owners have not an opportunity of knowing in any ordinary way how or where they may be accommodated; therefore the public and individuals sustain a real loss where it is easy to prevent it with a trifling expense. The practicability and usefulness of this method of improving the stock of working oxen is very evident; for on this day of experiment very many pairs of steers were matched almost to exactness, by exchanging, and no doubt to the mutual advantage of the owners. It must be considered fair to calculate that a repetition of this practice yearly in any country town, would shortly enhance the real value of the stock of working oxen very considerably. How far this precedent, (if it be one,) is worthy of imitation, and how far it co-operates with the great and highly important designs of the respectable agricultural societies in our country, we leave to our brother farmers to judge.