Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-03

, -. ..,,;,,,,sd that wherever in New England,
in fact in the United States, you may hnd iocanly
famous Tor good cattle, the nigh quality OF mat
ss1ck has come from some pure importation. NJ
rnerous instances were named IN PROOF OF TINS
This opinion, with regard to cattle, the speaker ana
not entertain with regard to horses, and he gave
sketch of the American trOting horse, as peculiar
animal belonging and the product Of our own
country, bred here through many generations, and
not found elsewhere
Sketches were given of the various breeds of cat
tle-Sh0rt Horns, Devons, Here1ords for beef, and
Jerseys and AyreshiTes for milk-these last being
highly praised The address concluded with refer
eDce the relations which cattle bear TO our bust
ness as farmers The speaker speaker add need
not tell you how all depend upon the dumb crea-
lures which wait upon us during life, and at their
death feed and clothe From valley and hill,
from prairie and mountain, they come hOcking in,
the patient servants Of their imperious master They
offer themselves living sacrifice TO the majesty OF
civilized man, suffering he yields TO poverty and
hardship, and barbarsm, and rising with HIM as he
rises, into his conditions OF luxury and ease, and
economy, and fitness of purpose. The great COM
munity of cattle. who shall write its history! How
it has been controlled by the social laws which
make the world what ii is; how it enables the great
community of man TO dwell here on the face OF the
earth; how it stands the pedestal upon which no
bier fabric rests howits condition tells the tale of
races higher in the scale of being.
That strange and mysterious relation between man
and animals, everywhere recognized every where
ielt-that intelligent appropriation and cultivation
the one hand, that unconscious and entire obedi
and submission of all the great vital forces on
the other-who can tell it all? And superior we
may be, powerful. controlling, and independent, can
any man contemplate the magnitude OF the change,
were the popular sovereignty of this great com
munity of cattle to be asserted, and mans dominion
be suddenly broken! From the feeding of armies,
and the sustaining of the busy throngw fill places
of honor and trust down to the nourlsh-
lshing drop which supports the feeble child
in Its first grasp upon life, it is the domestic
animal which hears one long and constant
human appeal, and never hesitates in its devoted
and self-sacrihcing reply. In parks, i'll meadows,
before the cottage door, with entire and unre-
sistlng submission to circumstances, there come to
man from his dumb ally, food and raiment, and an
increasing claim upon his skill and his humanity.
1t is the animal kingdom which forms one of the
hottest charms of cultivated landscape, in motion
and in repose And man never succeeds III subdu-
ing the earth and revealing its quiet domestic beau
ties, until he has enlisted those servants without
whose aid agriculture must fail, and whose value is
commensurate with the progress made in the great
business of applying all animate and inanimate ma
ture to the necessities and adornments of civilized
lite.n
AT half past 2 o'clock P. NJ, there was q
trial of moving machines upon the northeast
corner of the society's grounds, between
Manny's machine and the Buckeye. The
committee report to-day upon the relative
merits of each machine, but in the opinion OF
many, Manny's came out triumphant yester-
| day.
This morning at o'clock there will be a
grand cavalcade of all horses, and at IL o'clock
a trot. Trotting will also be the order OF the
day for this afternoon. AT o'clock there will
be another public dinner, after which the re-
ports of the several committees will be made
and the premiums announced.