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animal. To this end, we prefer roots, oats, and the like, to 

 Indian corn ; for while the one will develop milking qualities, 

 the other will produce excessive fat. 



Experience proves that a gentle, docile animal will give a 

 greater quantity of milk, and improve more with the same quan- 

 tity of food than one of opposite nature. 



Many farmers are not particular enough in the selection of 

 calves. Indeed, we hesitate not to say, that as a general rule, 

 there is more loss in their not using proper care in the selection 

 of the calf to be raised, than in any other way. It is certainly 

 far better to pay a high price, for a superior calf, than to be 

 presented with a poor one. Not raising a good calf because the 

 farmer could not afford the expense, is too much like the farmer 

 who used his cart wheels without the tire, because he could not 

 afford the price of iron. The committee would close their 

 remarks by expressing much gratification at the general appear- 

 ance of those entered for premiums, both as to beauty and size. 

 Our regret is, that while Messrs. Fisk, Peck, Anderson and May, 

 seemed to vie together in a generous emulation, there was not a 

 greater number to emulate their zeal. Certainly there are other 

 farmers in Franklin county, who might, if they would, be con- 

 tributors to our annual fair, doing great honor to themselves, 

 while adding to the happiness and prosperity of the community. 



Dexter Childs, Chairman. 



NORFOLK. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Milch Cows. — In the book containing the premiums and the 

 rales for awarding them, there are two sections relating to cows. 

 The first oifers a premium for the different breeds, without 

 requiring any written statement. The second, headed milch 

 cows, requires a particular description, in writing, of the expense 

 of feeding, and the quantity and quality of the milk at different 

 times. At the late exhibition, nearly all the cows entered for 

 premium might, with propriety, have been called milch cows, 

 many of them having calves with them. They respectfully 

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