•t6 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



I have endeavored to make use of no statements which I 

 did not feel sure were rehable. 



A young man living in the town of Sheldon, purchased a 

 farm, about three years ago, with a dairy of sixty cows. He 

 soon commenced testing each member of his herd separately, 

 with care, and found many of them were not profitable 

 butter cows. After selling and buying, lie had reduced his 

 dairy to tliirty-five cows. He told me, not long since, he 

 had made as much butter from the thirty-five selected cows 

 in one season, as from the sixty cows he bought with the 

 farm, and, during the time, had accumulated a large amount 

 of hay. 



Of course, you will reinember it costs less to take care of 

 thirty-five than sixty. This dairy was composed of what 

 are termed native cows. 



Now I do not need to make figures to show that he has 

 very much increased his net income. Wlien this farm is 

 fully stocked with such cows as the thirty-five, the net 

 income must be more than doubled, and the owner have the 

 satisfaction of feeling he has accomplished something worth 

 his while 



Another marked case is that of the daiiy of E. S. Wood, 

 Esq., of North Pomfret. I have visited Mr. Wood on two 

 occasions, and become familiar with all his management. 

 His dairy is composed of high grade Jerseys entirely. He 

 attributes his success to the bi'eed more than to his skill and 

 good care, but whichever it may be, it is of equal impor- 

 tance as an example. 



He commenced keeping Jerseys about eighteen years 

 ago. Previous to that time, he tells me, he sold but little 



