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The Agricultural Society.

Our correspondent below evidently diSlikes
those provisions in the Rules of the Agricultural
Society which have been the subjcc, of consid-
cradle discussion in our columns for the past
few weeks. and is little inclined to treat them
snappisl,'y. Keep your temper" is the golden
rule in such Il matter. There can be no doubt
that the Society desires so to conduct its con-
Germs To advance the best good of the great
est number of our farmers, and to promote agri-
cultural improvement md excellence The most
that the sharpcst ohjector would probably urge
against the Managers is error in Judgment and
Sight practical experience will pretty generally
rcctiiy that. Whether the obnoxious Rules are
iWudcious or not, we do not intend to express
an opinion. We leave the discussion to those
who are more competent to attack and to defend
them.
BrRLNsroS, vr, May s, 1917.
To the Editor Of The Burlincton Free Press:
SIR: | notice in your valuable newspaper of late
a controversy about the Chtenden County Agricul-
tural Society. Now, dear sir have. thought c"nsid-
eraby upon this subject and my conclusions have
come pretty near the same mark that J. has hit Any
OF reasonable brains that he is right II
fine bull is presented for premium, without pedi
gree what would follow Why he would be rejected
Immediately and simply because he could moi tell
who his father or his mother was, where they were
born. Now, for instance, farmer buys horse, a
good roadster, troer PAGER, runner or whatever YOU
please, comes to Chtcnden County resides there
some years, hears OF this society, and being possessed
OF several superior animals. ons the society in hopes
oftakng premium perhaps with view to the better
disposal of his animals perhaps TO get custom for his
Eock. But also suppose that having driven his ami
mails from TO 10 or Is miles, and after spending his
day in url ngton or whatever other place the exhib-
lion may be in, his animals rejected as not good
enough Tor premium; and why why simply be-
cause he cannot tell his mother Hereford or
Durham or whether his father WINS a Durham AYR
shire or common breed. Or if the animal in question
be horse he is rejected because he does no, know
whether Pilgrim, Morgan, Black Hawk Sir Henry,
or Young Flying Childers his father. Another
thing; ii the committees were made up OF men Of er-
f,erience and kporicdgc md Moroughiy rcrsed rith
their business, which they certainly OugM 10 BE- there
would be no obvious necessity for pedigree, they
would be able to tell, at glance, To what breed the
annal belonged, and then all difficulty would be
avoided, aud good beast would take premium
whether he could tell who his progenitors or not
SIMPLY because he Is GOOD. Under the system. q
miserable beast may take prize and be pulled and
blown, merely because his father David, the fine
Durham, or his mother Matilda, the beautiful Hereford
COW; the daddy cost 50 many hundred dollars, anC
the mamma was imported, AT So much cost from Eng
iahd, ireland, Scotland or somewhere else aud tina,
sufficient reason 10 take premium. One thing il
cer,ainS-l have several animals that ought to take
premium have been member OF the Society but