AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



FARMS. 



NORFOLK. 



From the Report of the Supervisory Committee. 



On the 29th day of June, a majority of the Committee — 

 together with several invited guests — assembled at the farm of 

 Francis P. Denny, Esq., in Brookline. This may be called a 

 milk farm ; and the crops under cultivation had reference, 

 mainly, to the production of milk for the market. The stock 

 consists of twenty-two milch cows, several young heifers and 

 one fine bull. The mode of feeding, is principally, by soiling ; 

 and, for this purpose, brewers' grains are used, and also oats 

 and pease, cut green. Corn, potatoes and carrots are grown, 

 and garden vegetables for domestic consumption. The stock is 

 chiefly of grade or native breed. The milk finds sale, at the 

 farm, for twenty cents per gallon. It will be recollected that 

 this fine herd of milch cows was exhibited by Mr. Denny at the 

 last annual show, and attracted much attention. Good judg- 

 ment is apparent, both in the selection and the management of 

 this stock, and the result, as might be reasonably expected, is a 

 profitable one. 



After the most courteous and attentive treatment by Mr. 

 Denny, the company were conducted to the farm of Mr. "Willard 

 A. Humphrey, This is, also, a milk farm. The stock consists 

 of thirty cows. One of these, — now twenty years old, and still 

 in milk — has been a very superior animal. From the time of 

 dropping her first calf, she has not failed to present another 

 every succeeding year ; and she has yielded twenty quarts of 

 milk per day, when in full feed. Here were, also, a pure blood 

 Jersey bull, two years old, and a grade Durham and Jersey, of 



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