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STATRMF.XT OF S. F. GROSSMAN. 



I enter my ii^rade milch cow for premium. She was five years 

 old in the Spring of 1S75. Breed part Jersey and part Durham. 

 Dropped her last calf in the middle of November, 1874, and then 

 gave from eighteen to twenty quarts of milk. In June, 1875, 

 she gave fourteen to fifteen cfuarts, in August nine to eleven, 

 and at the present time, about four weeks previous to her drop- 

 ping her next calf, she gives from eight to nine quarts. Since 

 May, 1875, her feed has been ordinary pasturage and seven lbs 

 of ground oats per day. 



The Committee, in submitting thefr report, desire to say that 

 the foregoing statements, with one exception, are all that came 

 to their hands giving any information on which to base any judg- 

 ment or to make any award. When the attention of exhibitors 

 was called to the Society's rule, the reply was that they had not 

 seen the book containing the rule and knew nothing about it. 



Your Committee have awarded premiums in three or four in- 

 stances where the statements were mainly verbal ones, but in 

 which they were satisfied of their truth, and that the exhibitors 

 were really ignorant of the requirement of a full written state- 

 ment. They recommend that hereafter more effort be made to 

 give information that every exhibitor for a premium must com- 

 ply with the rule requiring a full, but concise, written statement 

 as to the following facts, viz : — age, breed, time of dropping last 

 calf, when will next calve, kind, quality and quantity of food 

 during the season and the weight or measure of milk during the 

 evening and morning of the first ten days of June and the last 

 ten days of August, or of a like period in some other months if 

 the cow is not in milk in June and August, and that Committees 

 ibe instructed not to award any premium unless such rule is com- 

 plied with. 



