68* ON MILCH COAVS AND HEIFERS. 



ingin every limb, -with half-glazed eyes, hair standing in all directions, 

 thus doing the best they can to keep off" the cold, with bones almost pro- 

 truding from the skin. This is the animal which in Holland is thought 

 ■worthy to be separated from the parlors of the wealthy only by a glass 

 door ! Men with souls, look on and heed not that they are breaking 

 God's law, and doing violence to their own natures. Surely, the 

 statute against cruelty to animals ought to be enforced. 



I would point out some of the leading features of good management 

 of cows, did I not hope for the credit of the County, that most farmers 

 studied and practised it. Those who do not, if humanity cannot com- 

 pel them, I hope their own interests will. 



Respectfully submitted, 



T. E. PAYSON, Chairman. 

 Lynn, October 1st, 184G. 



WARREN AVERILL'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on 31ilch Cotvs and Heifers : 



Gentlemen,— I offer for your inspection, my cow Flora, native 

 breed, seven years old. Said cow calved on the fifth day of Sep- 

 tember. In the three past weeks she has made 221 lbs. of butter, 

 from what milk the calf left after sucking. Average milk per da}'', 

 a trifle over six quarts more than the calf sucked. The said cow 

 calved the last season the twenty-first day of April. The ten months 

 following, her milk was kept separate for butter ; she made from the 

 milk 4OI2 lbs. butter. After that, we sold her milk, as it was more 

 profit than to make butter. The cow was kept the past season on 

 hay (clover) mth twenty bushels carrots; no meal. Since she 

 calved I have given her one quart meal per day, and a common pas- 

 ture. The calf is from the bull owned by Augustine Heard, Esq., 

 of this town, a full blooded Ayrshire. 



WARREN AVERILL. 



Ipswich, October 1st, 1846. 



