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Report of the Committee on Class No. 5. 



There was but one cow kept for milk, entered in this Class 

 for premium, and she was so superior that the committee had 

 no hesitation in awarding to her owner, Mr. Rufus Carter, of 

 Worcester, the first premium of $40. 



There were two other animals entered for exhibition only, 



the conditions of the premium not having been complied with. 



One of these, a fine cow entered by T. P. Curtis, the other a 



beautiful heifer, entered by Mr. Charles Brigham, of Marlboro'. 



The committee respectfully recommend that a gratuity of $10 



dollars be allowed to Mr. Brigham, as some compensation for 



his trouble. 



Charles L. Flint, Chairman. 



From the Statement of Rufus Carter. 



The record of the product of dairy stock, entered and exhib- 

 ited for premium in Class 5, at the dairy stock exhibition, held 

 at Worcester, by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- 

 culture, in the month of September. 



The amount of strained milk yielded by the cow, for four 

 months, beginning with May, is as follows : — 



I have three cows, and the one I enter has been kept alone 

 most of the time at pasture, and with the others while in the 

 barn. The cow exhibited is ten years old, one-fourth Ayrshire 

 and three-fourths Durham ; and bred in Worcester, by Levi 

 Lincoln, and raised by William S. Lincoln. 



I commenced drying her on the 2d of March, and was obliged 

 to milk her occasionally until the 28th of March. She dropped 

 her calf on the 28th of April, 1856, and received the bull on the 

 15th of August. She was turned to pasture on the 3d of May. 



