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before lie purchased her. "Sir," said he, " I sold you my cow, 

 but I did not sell you my pasture." The county of Ayr is a 

 highly improved agricultural district. 



In the scale of points before spoken of — twelve times as much 

 importance is given to the udder of the Ayrshire cow as to the 

 udder of the Devon cow, " because," say the judges, "the Ayr- 

 shires have been bred almost exclusively with reference to their 

 milking properties." 



The Alderneys are everywhere praised for the richness of the 

 milk which they give. The Jersey cow Flora — imported and 

 owned by Mr. Motley, of Roxbury — produced more than five 

 hundred pounds of butter in less than a year. Four quarts of 

 her milk, however, never made a pound of butter. It always 

 took a fraction more. If, then, our cows are to be improved at 

 all, by crossing with blood stock — it must be with one or the 

 other of these two breeds. 



Whether cross-breeding with imported stock — or a course of 

 judicious selection for a series of years from our own cattle — 

 be they natives or nameless, as your will — aiding this selection 

 by a system of constant care and nutritious food, will best ac- 

 complish the end in view, your committee express no opinion. 

 They have already to ask to be excused for extending this re- 

 port to so great length. If, however, any body, anywhere shall 

 be benefited by these suggestions, it will be a sufficient ground 

 of pardon for the space which they have occupied. 



T. E. Payson, Chairman. 



Statement of John Perkins. 



I present for examination my cow of native origin, six years 

 old. I have owned this cow four years. She had her calf the 

 14th of March last ; since that time, up to the present, she has 

 given 2,829 quarts of milk. I have measured her milk every 

 day, as I sold it to my neighbors. Her milk is said to be very 

 good by those who use it. From the time she calved up to the 

 20th of July she averaged fifteen quarts per day ; from that 

 time to the present thirteen quarts per day. In June she gave 

 seventeen quarts per day for ten days in succession ; she now 

 gives eleven quarts per day. 



