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profitable to sow winter rye in July and August, for feeding to 

 cows the following spring, as it will afford a gaod bite for them, 

 fifteen or twenty days earlier than grass. By this means, cows 

 may be kept upon green fodder, until the grass has grown so as 

 to afford them full feed, at the commencement of the pasturing 

 season. The expense of the rye will be small, as it may be 

 sown after a crop of hay, or early potatoes, has been taken from 

 the land. It has also proved good economy, by many farmers, 

 to sow Indian corn, of the southern variety, in drills, at the 

 rate of three bushels to the acre, which will, at a trifling ex- 

 pense, (as it needs no weeding ^r hoeing,) enable the farmer to 

 feed his cows as well at the usual dry part of the summer, as 

 in the best season for grass, in the month of June. 



Your committee insist upon the great importance of gentle- 

 ness and kindness, in the treatment of cows, to the end that 

 they may yield their milk freely ; for cows will not yield their 

 milk freely, under harsh and cruel treatment ; and it is the 

 opinion of your committee, that more loss, in the production of 

 milk, is occasioned by the bad temper of the milker, Avho vents 

 his anger upon the unfortunate cow, than by all other causes 

 combined. The committee would suggest the importance of 

 care and attention, in the selection of cows for milk. It is their 

 opinion, founded upon long and careful observation, that the 

 cows in this county might be made to yield, without any addi- 

 tional expense, at least one quart per day, on an average, 

 throughout the year, more than they now do, by the observance 

 of due care in selecting, and proper attention in feeding and 

 milking them. This addition of yield, at twelve and a half 

 cents a gallon, (which is the price of milk in most towns in 

 this county,) would make a difference of eleven dollars and 

 forty cents, annually, in the earnings of each cow. An amount 

 almost equal to the interest of two hundred dollars a year, may 

 be realized, as the committee verily believe, by care in these 

 particulars. 



On Milch Cows of the First Class. 

 The committee award the first premium, of eight dollars, to 



