330 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



FKANKLIN. 



Report of the Committee on Cows. 



The number of cows entered for exhibition and premiums 

 was larger than usual, (about thirty,) but not as large as is 

 desirable. Every good cow in the county should be exhibited, 

 to give encouragement to the farmers' holiday, as well as to 

 show the promise for good cows and oxen in the future. The 

 lot, as a whole, was very fine — not a poor or inferior one 

 among them. Ten were exhibited by Mr. Timothy Stoughton, 

 of Gill, all fine, and attracted much attention, not only from the 

 committee, but from others ; he was well worthy the premium 

 awarded. Messrs. William Long, S. C. Taylor, and Samuel 

 Fisk, all of Shclburne, have each a lot of three excellent looking 

 cows, and were so from the statements given in, though not 

 entirely complete and full. Those of William Long had each 

 her calf by her side, giving a good promise for the future. Dr. 

 D. D. Fisk, of Greenfield, gave a full statement of his cow, from 

 which it appears that in the first week in June she gave over 

 sixteen quarts of milk per day, which weighed forty-one pounds 

 per day, and from which sixteen pounds five ounces of butter 

 were made. This is truly a very remarkable yield of milk and 

 butter, especially with no other feed than a common pasture. 

 She is a native, with a cross of Durham, and your committee 

 believe that to be the best stock of the county. The cows of 

 Mr. Josiah Fogg, David R. Wait, and Asahel Wright, all of 

 Deerfield, were very superior animals, and had they given a full 

 statement we cannot say where they would have stood in the 

 list of premiums. That of Mr. Fogg is probably one of the 

 very best cows in the county. If premiums are expected, the 

 rules of the society must be complied with. 



H. G. Newcomb, Chairman. 



Report of the Committee on Heifers. 



The committee on heifers would respectfully report that at 

 no previous exhibition of this society has there been a more 

 full or better exhibition of this class of animals than the present j 



