334 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



For the best Jersey bull, 1 year old, to William Spen- 

 cer, of Lowell, $50 00 



For the 2d best, to Stephen Salisbury, of Worcester, . 40 00 

 For the 3d best, to Joseph Burnett, of Southborough, 



for his bull " Czar," 25 00 



The premiums offered under Class No. 3, were — 



For the best Jersey or Alderney cow, . . . $50 00 

 For the next best, 35 00 



Your committee are pained to report, that not a single entry 

 for premium was made under this class. The premiums being 

 quite liberal, your committee had every reason to suppose that 

 a large number of the best breed of cows would have been 

 offered for their inspection. As it is, their duties in this respect 

 are ended, by this expression of their disappointment and 

 regret. 



But your committee had the satisfaction of viewing a herd of 

 three Jersey cows, offered for exhibition by our enterprising and 

 public spirited fellow-citizen, Hon. Stephen Salisbury, of Wor- 

 cester, to whose exertions the Massachusetts Society, as well as 

 this community, are much indebted, for the importation of blood 

 cattle, as well as for improvements in other departments of 

 agriculture. These cows are a very fine specimen of the Jersey 

 breed, and are named respectively, " Lady," " Judy," and 

 " Fawn." They were imported by himself, in 1853, and would 

 have been worthy of a premium, if he had complied with the 

 society's requisitions in regard to the quantity of milk, butter, 

 &c. Your committee recommend that the thanks of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Society be presented to Mr. Salisbury for his impor- 

 tation and exhibition of these cows. 



A lot of cows and bulls were also entered by the Massachusetts 

 Society, for exhibition and sale. They were imported, or were 

 the progeny of imported stock, and are undoubtedly the finest 

 collection of that breed of animals in this Commonwealth. 

 That society deserves the high commendation of our people for 

 importing that stock, and thus enabling all to judge of their 

 qualities as milkers, and the utility of a cross with our native 

 or other breeds. 



