310 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Under Class 1. — "For the best six dairy cows, which have 

 been owned and kept together from July 1, 1855, to the day of 

 the show, and at least three of which cows shall have been 

 bred and raised, or imported, by the competitors," — 



John Mann, of Worcester, entered, and presented his state- 

 ment of the ownership and keeping of six cows, four of them 

 being raised by himself. They were from a herd of 21 cows 

 kept together, and their ages, respectively, 10, 5, 5, 9, 9, and 4, 

 and their breed denominated " grade." Their product in milk, 

 for the first three days in nine months, from December 1, to 

 August 1, both inclusive, was 3,355 lbs. 4 oz., or 1,299 quarts 1 

 pint, which yielded 156 lbs. 4 oz. of butter. The whole produce 

 of the nine months is not given, nor does it any where appear from 

 Mr. Mann's statement, that, except for the first three days of 

 each month, the milk was manufactured into butter or cheese, 

 according to the requirement. In answer to the inqniry as to 

 the process of manufacturing, he states : " That for the last 

 eight years he had not made much butter, having sold the milk. 

 The way he did, last winter, was to put three quarts in a pan 

 and set it up stairs, where it would not freeze, till it was three 

 days old. In the summer, the same in a pan, and put it down 

 cellar, and let it set till it was sour." Mr. Mann fed to his 

 stock of cows last winter, with his hay, 3,500 lbs. of shorts, at 

 $25 per ton ; 302 bushels of corn and cobmeal ; 100 busliels of 

 carrots ; 50 bushels of turnips ; and 50 luishels of small pota- 

 toes, — the meal being mixed \n\h wet hay, — and after the 12th 

 of February he gave swill once a day to those yielding the 

 most milk, instead of meal on their hay. He keeps his cows in 

 the barn through the night in summer. There is nothing 

 otherwise peculiar in his management. 



One of Mr. Mann's cows, 10 years old, gave, in the first three 

 days of February, 49 quarts of strained milk ; and the same 

 quantity the first three days in June, according to his statement. 

 His six cows yielded, on the first three days of June, 224 quarts 

 of milk. 



Samuel Ellsworth, of Barre, entered six cows, of eleven kept 

 together, of the ages respectively of 9, 6, 7, 10, 3 and 3, grade 

 Durham. Three of the six raised by himself. 



In the first three days of the nine months of trial, they pro- 



