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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Their feed has been good hay and six quarts of shorts per 

 day ; when turned out to grass, only what she got in the pas- 

 ture, until since the 20th of July, when she has had hay night 

 and morning, and four quarts of shorts per day. 



South Dantees, Sept. 26, 1855. 



MIDDLESEX. 



Statement of Asa G. Sheldon, to ivliom ivas aioarded the 

 Second Preinium for a Dairy of eight cows. 



Name. 



1 — Grej' Cow, 

 2 — Beauty, 

 3— Black NeUy, 

 4 — Patience, . 

 5-Spot, . . 

 6 — State of Maine, 

 7 — Blaclc Broad Horn, 

 8 — Nonesuch, . . 



Where raised. 



Wikaington, . 



do 



Maine, . . . 

 New Hampshire, 



Wilmington, . 

 Maine, . . 



Vermont, . . 



Maine, . . . 



When Calyed. 



April 8, 1855, 

 May 6, 1855, 

 April 8, 1855, 

 " 28, 1855, 

 May 8, 1855, 

 April 15, 1855, 

 May 25, 1855, 

 Dec. 23, 1854, 



Amount of Amount of 



Butter for 



9 days in 



June. 



Butter for 



9 days in 



Sept. 



8 lbs. 



9 3-4 " 



10 « 



8 3-4 " 



9 " 

 8 " 

 8 " 

 8 3-4 " 



11 lbs. 



131-4 " 



13 " 



91-4 " 



101-4 " 



101-4 " 



111-4 " 



7 3-4 " 



The cow Nonesuch made also in the month of January, 1855, 

 forty-two pounds of butter, and in the month of February, 

 thirty-seven pounds. 



The weight of milk the eight cows gave in the first nine days 

 of June and September, was as follows : — 



