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Wi7igate MerrilVs Statement. 



The cow I offer for premium, is eight or nine years old. I 

 have owned her two and a half years. Her calf was killed the 

 13th day of June, when twenty four days old — was fat, and 

 weighed 112 pounds, dressed. 



I have kept an account of her milk, as follows : — ^from June 

 13th to July 13th, 30 days, 1,380 lbs. Average per day, 

 46 lbs. 



From July 13th to Sept. 27th, 76 days, 3,040 lbs. Average 

 per day, 40 lbs. She gives 39 lbs. a day, now. 



Her feed has been common pasture, with three other cows. 

 She has been milked between four and five o'clock, all summer, 

 and has remained in the barn at night, with a foddering of hay. 

 She has had no grain of any kind. I set the milk for butter 

 one day, and made from it 2 lbs. 2 ozs. 



Danvers, Sept. 27th, 1849. 



Enoch Page's Statement. 



I offer for premium one native cow, 4 years old. Her milk, 

 for the last twenty days, has weighed 738 lbs., making 13| 

 quarts per day. She had a calf the middle of July last. 



Danvers, Sept. 26, 1849. 



Fredei'ic Burnham''s Statement. 



The cow which I enter for premium, is seven years old, and 

 has been owned by me over a year. She calved the 17th 

 of March last, and will have her next calf the first of March 

 next. She gives her milk till the time of calving. At the 

 height of feed, for three weeks in June, she gave an average 

 of 15 i quarts per day. Previously to that time, and since, her 

 average yield has been thirteen quarts per day. Last year, I 

 sold from her, besides what I used in the family, $105 worth 

 of milk, at 4 cents per quart, from May 20th to Nov. 20th ; 

 and at 5 cents the rest of the year. The calf I sold at $5 25- 



