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family. Tlic average of milk during ten days in June, from 

 the 10th to the 20th, was thirty-seven pounds, daily. During 

 the required trial in September, she was dry. Has a calf at 

 this present time. Her feed, common pasture, in summer. In 

 the winter months, hay, with a partial feed of roots. 



Zebard Foster, of Springfield, states that his cow is seven 

 years old. Calved May 29th, 1853. Her average of milk 

 from June 10th to the 20th, was sixty pounds, daily. The cor- 

 responding days in September, thirty-five pounds. Her feed, 

 pasture, with four quarts of rye provender, daily. 



J. H. Demond reports his cow to be of native stock ; seven 

 years old, and calved the middle of August last ; she was dry 

 in June ; and her daily yield during the ten days' trial in Sep- 

 tember was forty pounds per day. Milk all marketed at four 

 cents per quart. 



Amos M. Carlton, of Chicopee, states that his cow is five 

 years old, Durham and Ayrshire; calved August 17, 1853. 

 The daily product of milk, from June 10th to the 20th, was an 

 average of fourteen and one-half pounds. In September, during 

 the same length of time, was thirty-four and one-half pounds. 

 Mr. Carlton says, that for one year, ending March 1, 1853, her 

 product was three thousand seven hundred quarts of milk — 

 being an average of ten quarts per day. 



In the second class, cows from two to five years, there were 

 several which, although unaccompanied with the statements re- 

 quired by the society, we venture (in front of our duty) to 

 depart so far from the prescribed regulations, as to recommend 

 in this case that the premiums provided for this class of animals 

 should be distributed among those possessing prominent points 

 of excellence. We would notice one entered by 0. H. Cooley, 

 of Springfield. She was three years old ; and your committee 

 unanimously consider her a most perfect miniature cow. There 

 were two herds of nine cows each, which were a great addition 

 to the interest of the exhibition. 



Mr. Marshal Pease, of Chicopee, is the fortunate owner of 

 one of them, and although he offered no statement of their 

 products as a claim for our consideration, your committee have 

 no hesitation in pronouncing them a superior herd of cows. 



Mr. Samuel Murphy, of Springfield, presented the other for 



