314 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



this race into the county, and for permitting their presence 

 under so many disadvantages, to give interest to our show. 



Levi Lincoln, Chairman. 



Statement of Samuel Ellsiooi'th. 



1. What number of cows constitute your dairy? A. Ten. 



2. What their age respectively ? A. Two, nine years old f 

 one, seven years old ; three, four years old ; three, six years old j 

 and one, two years old. 



3. What their breed ? A. Five half Durham, one half Ayr- 

 shire, one half Ilolderness, and three of native breed. 



Where bred and raised, and by whom ? A. Six bred and 

 raised by myself, one bred by Elias Ayres, in Barre, one by 

 E. W. Paige, of Ilardwick, and two I do not know where. 



5. On what day did they drop their last calf, and what was 

 the quality of the calf? A. My dairy commenced dropping 

 their calves in February ,• nine of them dropped them by the 

 15th of April, and one the 11th of June. I raised nine calves, 

 and the remainder were sold for veal. 



6. They were turned to pasture the 12th of May. 



7. The cows which I ofier for premium had in June two 

 quarts of provender per day, and four quarts of potatoes ; when 

 on trial in September, each cow had two quarts of shorts and 

 one of provender, per day. 



8. The five cows, three of which I raised, made in the first 

 ten days of June, two hundred and thirty-six and a half pounds 

 of cheese, and in the first ten days of September, one hundred 

 and ninety-five and a half pounds. The 1 1th of June they made 

 nine pounds of butter, and the 11th of September six pounds. 



9. Besides the butter and cheese used in my family, I sold 

 ^295.46 worth. The ten cows made 3,268 pounds of butter 

 and cheese. 



10. I have kept four old hogs and eight pigs ; they have had 

 -no grain until the first of August, since then fed six barrels 

 of barley and six of corn. The liogs and pigs are valued at 

 $151. 



11. The nine calves whiv;]i I raised are valued at $135. 



I Cow No. 1. " Gcorgiana," six years old; calved March 9th; 



