86 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



In conclusion, we hesitate not to say, that we have the ele- 

 ments of as good milch cows, as there are any where, and that 

 if men, who have the means, will apply science and enlight- 

 ened judgment to their development, instead of going abroad 

 \ for cows, we can furnish better of our own, than can be found 

 elsewhere in the wide world. 



For the Committee, 



T. E. PAYSON. 



Salem, Sept. 27, 1849. 



Henry Poor^s Statement. 



I offer for premium a Bull, eighteen months old, weighing 

 1052 pounds. He is the third calf from a cow having pro- 

 duced a heifer, for which $100 was offered when three years 

 old. His origin is partly of the Vaughan stock, imported and 

 scattered on the Kennebec River, many years since, which has 

 been crossed partially by the Durham, mixing the two with the 

 native breed, and producing the best stock driven to our market, 

 as all dealers will attest. 



He, probably, is more of the native than any other blood ; 

 hence, I call him the " New England," as being appropriate to 

 his pedigree, and in harmony with my views of the value of 

 Native American Stock. 



He has been kept on ordinary pasture feed; his growth has 

 been about twelve pounds a-week, as we have weighed him 

 from time to time ; but he has never been forced in his growth. 

 During the season, he has served about twenty cows. 



North Andover, Sept. 26, 1849. 



On the State Society's Bull. 



The Committee, who had in charge the receiving and dis- 

 posal of the Bull which the Massachusetts' Agricultural Society 

 kindly offered to the Essex Society for their use, until such 



