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Second premium, to J. C. Parsons, West Springfield, 

 Durham cow, 5 years old, calved June 18th. Average 

 quantity of milk given for 10 days, from June 27th, 

 47 pounds 3 ounces ; do. for 10 days in September, 

 37 pounds, - - - - _ 4 00 



Third premium, to J. 0. Parsons, West Springfield, cow, 

 3-4 Durham, 1-4 native, five years old, calved August 

 29th. Average quantity of milk for 10 days from 

 September 5th, 44 pounds 10 ounces ; do. for four days 

 ending September 30th, 41 pounds, - - 3 00 



Fourth premium, to Josiah Hooker, Springfield, cow, 3 

 years old, calved August 15th. Average quantity of 

 milk, from September 10th to 20th, 32 pounds, - 2 00 



Fifth premium, to James Chapin, Springfield, cow, 4 

 years old, calved July 16th. Average quantity of milk 

 from September 10th to 20th, 32 pounds. - 1 00 



J. C. PARSONS, Chairman. 



N. T. Leonard's Statement. 



The cow entered by me for premium, I bought two years 

 ago last winter, of a neighbor, who purchased her in Granby, 

 in this State, and who was informed that she was of native 

 stock. She was then five years old, and of course her present 

 age is seven. She calved in the spring, before turning to grass, 

 and gave, while in fresh milk, twenty-two quarts per day. Her 

 feed at that time was three quarts per day of meal, of an equal 

 mixture of corn and oats, and as much good hay as she 

 desired. 



During the ensuing winter, in addition to hay, she was fed 

 with corn stalks cut up, with a sprinkling of buckwheat bran, 

 say four quarts per day of the latter. I think the stalks caused 

 her to lose milk, as she dried off in May, three months before 

 calving, and she was then in very high order as to flesh. Last 

 winter I gave her, instead of the stalks and bran, beets and 

 carrots, and continued to milk her until the 31st of July, when, 

 finding that the flow of milk was increasing, I ceased milking. 

 On the 25th of August, she dropped her calf, which was of a 

 large frame, but not so well filled up as that of the preceding 



