SECRETARY'S REPORT. 27 



In pursuance of a vote passed at the last annual meeting of the 

 Board, the Committee on Stock have purchased an imported Hereford 

 cow, five years old, with her calf, eight months old, for which they 

 paid two hundred and ninety dollars. This cow received the first 

 premium of one hundred dollars, as the best Hereford cow at the 

 show of the United States Agricultural Society, at Boston, in October 

 last. The Hon. J. C. Gray has presented to the Board a very fine Jersey 

 bull calf, for which the thanks of the Board are due. The thanks of 

 the Board are also due to the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 

 of Agriculture, for a very beautiful Jersey cow, which proves excellent 

 for milk, but not so good for butter as the reputation of that breed 

 might warrant us in expecting ; she gave, from the fifteenth of October 

 to the twenty-second, seven days, one hundred and forty-one and 

 three-quarter pounds of milk, which was manufactured by Mrs. Brig- 

 ham, an experienced lady in the dairy, and produced eighteen pounds 

 of cream, which made seven and one-half pounds of excellent butter. 

 Five and twenty-two hundredths per cent, of the milk Avas butter. 

 The Board have also to acknowledge a gift from Thomas Motley, Jr., 

 Esq., of a full blood imported Sufiblk boar, which proves an excel- 

 lent animal, H. W. Clapp, of Greenfield, has donated to the Board 

 two pigs, a male and a female, of mixed Sufiblk, and Mackay breed, 

 for Avhich the thanks of the Board are due. 



There has been some change within the last year in the live stock 

 upon the farm, by slaughter and purchase, which will fully appear in 

 the Secretary's account. We have been unfortunate the past year in 

 swine, by the loss by death of fifty or more young pigs ; the Commit- 

 tee, however, believe that the Treasurer's account will show some gain 

 in that department. 



The last year the Committee were obliged to expend $335.07 in 

 the purchase of hay, and the hire of pasturage to sustain the stock 

 necessary to supply the institution Avith milk, and the farm Avith ox 

 and horse labor. To save this expenditure the present year, the 

 Committee rented a neighboring farm, from which they have obtained 

 more fodder and pasturage than was purchased the last year, and 

 after paying the labor and expense of cultivation, and $600 rent, 

 have a surplus as profit, of $442.64. 



John Bkooks. 

 MosEs Nea;veli. 



It was the design of the Board to procure good specimens of 

 each of the prominent breeds of animals, in order to test, so 

 far as practicable, the comparative merits of each in a perfectly 



