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calf have all it would take. At four weeks old, I sold the calf for 

 seven dollars ; it weighed 20 pounds the quarter. From the time of 

 calving, her feed has been good English hay, with one quart of In- 

 dian meal a day, which has been continued except a few weeks at 

 the height of the feed. Through the summer she has been in a 

 good pasture, with other cows, and has been fed with green corn 

 stalks, at nigh:, since the middle of July. 



The second week in June her milk yielded 8 lbs. of butter, of the 

 first quality ; she then gave ten to twelve quarts of milk per day. 

 Her milk was set four days last week and produced 4 lbs. butter, a 

 sample of which may be seen to-day by the Committee. She gives 

 at this time about 8 quarts per day. 



EBEN PUTNAM. 



North Danvers, September 28th, 1848. 



cows, by the Society, was a sufncient inducement to bring to the 

 fair an unusual number of competitors. The display of milch cows, 

 in point of number and superiority, was highly gratifying. Your 

 Committee were in possession of written statements, where neither 

 cows nor owners could be found to answer to them. "We saw sev- 

 eral superior looking cows on the common, near the pens, but could 

 find no keepers, and could not identify them by any of the written 



statements in our possession. If they were brought to the show and 



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