NEAT STOCK. 183 



Webster gave five quarts per day to the time she dropped her 

 calf, June 25th, and the third day after slie gave eighteen and 

 one-half quarts, and averaged more than sixteen quarts for the 

 next thirty days. Her calf, which I am raising, had for the 

 first month four quarts of milk per day, since that time two 

 quarts per day, which has not been taken into consideration in 

 the above account. 



The two cows that calved, viz. : — Red, September 7, 1854, and 

 Moss, November 28, 1854, are the best milkers of the seven. 

 They are nearly dry now, and are with calf, to come in October 

 15th and 26th. I think if five out of the seven had come in 

 the 1st of April, they would have given as much or more milk 

 during the trial than the whole seven have. 

 In April, 109 gallons at 24 cts. per gallon, . . ^26 16 

 From May 1 to Sept. 22, 2,259 gallons at 20 cts., . 451 80 



$477 96 

 I think the expense of marketing the milk has not exceeded 

 what it would have cost to have made the same into either 

 butter or cheese, including making sale of same. 



Beadfoed, September 25, 1855. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Report of the Committee on Stock, in 1854. 



Your committee, in addressing themselves to the duty im- 

 posed on them, have not been vain enough to imagine that they 

 were more enlightened than all others who had preceded them 

 in the same field of inquiry ; and they have accordingly perused 

 with respectful attention the reports of the committees on stock 

 in the several counties of the Commonwealth for some years 

 past. There is, in these reports, not a little difference of opin- 

 ion on points respecting which it is of the utmost importance 

 that the truth should be arrived at, and, if possible, unanimity 

 prevail ; because it is only on the universal conviction of the 

 superiority of some one system over all others, that its general 

 adoption can be hoped for ; and until this is attained, there will 

 always be, to some extent, a perseverance in the less enlight- 

 ened practice of by-gone days ; and this little leaven of igno- 



