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From about two weeks previous to her calving to the 15th 

 September, have given her one bushel oats, and one and 

 one-half bushels wheat and rye bran, at a cost of about three- 

 fourths of a cent per day. The milk very good ; seven and 

 seven-eighths quarts, beer measure, to one pound of butter. 



Statement of Jabez Fisher. 



The milch heifer which I enter for premium, was two years 

 old the first day of May last. Her breed is Durham and 

 Native, in uncertain proportions. She dropped her calf July 7. 

 She gave, in seven days, commencing July 24, one hundred 

 and sixty-five and one-fourth pounds of milk, averaging 

 twenty-three and sixty-three one hundredth pounds per day. 

 She gave, in the first seven days of September, one hundred 

 and sixty and one-fourth pounds of milk, averaging twenty-two 

 and eighty-nine one hundredths pounds per day. She was kept 

 in the barn all the time, and fed with hay and such green fodder 

 as the farm would furnish. 



From the Report on raising- Dairy Stock. 



The raising of stock at the present day is a paying business, 

 if properly managed ; and I believe that more depends upon 

 the selection of the calf, than the breed, care being taken to 

 raise such ones as will pay for beef, if they fail to be fit for the 

 dairy. It is useless, in my opinion, to be too very particular 

 about names of breeds, or to attempt to follow the fashion of 

 trying to raise blood stock, as that requires too much outlay of 

 money and time for common farmers, but breed from good 

 animals, and raise only the best of any breed, as there are a 

 great many that are not suitable. In raising, during the first 

 ten or twelve weeks, care should be taken to avoid the extremes 

 of too high or short feeding, but take good care of them for the 

 first year, keeping them in a healthy growth. After that, they 

 will require only ordinary attention. 



I have been led to adopt these opinions from the fact that, 

 after all that is said in favor of blood stock, and the attempt of 

 the owners and breeders of it to put down all grade stock, the 

 market-man tells me that it is from them he gets his poorest 

 calves for veal. 



Ezra Kendall, Chairman. 



