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She has been pastured with another cow this season, in two 

 fields, containing less than two acres, that have not been under 

 plough for ten years. Excepting a fortnight's feed elsewhere, 

 and a little fodder from the garden, this has been all her feed. 

 Manchester, Sept. 21, 1849. 



Heifers. 



The number of heifers offered for premium is uncommonly 

 large, being forty. The Committee (John Alley, 3^. Chair- 

 man,) award for heifers in milk, three months or more, first 

 premium, $7, to Hiram L. Roberts, of Beverly. 



Hiram L. Robert's Statement. 



The heifer that I offer for your inspection, was purchased by 

 me in November, 1848, and was three years old in April fol- 

 lowing, and brought her first calf February 16th, 1849. Her 

 feed, up to the time of her calving, was meadow hay only, after 

 that, English hay. Her calf was sold when three weeks and 

 three days old ; she then gave eleven quarts of milk per day. 

 She went to pasture May 19th, and had no hay afterwards, and 

 was what good farmers would call, in very poor flesh. She 

 was fed with one quart of corn meal per day, for seven succes- 

 sive days only, after being turned to pasture. The first four- 

 teen days in June, she produced 15 pounds of butter, besides 

 sufficient milk and cream for the use of a family of five persons. 

 The third week in June, her milk measured 85 quarts, given in 

 seven successive days, and produced 10 pounds of butter, churn- 

 ing from the cream. After that, time no correct account was kept 

 of her milk or butter, until September 16th, when her milk 

 was again measured for seven successive days. It measured 64 

 quarts, and produced 7| pounds of butter, once worked over and 

 salted, her feed being a mowing field, that she had been in 

 about two months, containing about 3| acres. 



Beverly, Sept. 2^th, 1849. 



