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quarts of "shorts" and from one to two quarts of corn meal 

 per day. Occasionally, a little oil and cotton-seed meal has 

 been substituted for an equal quantity of corn meal. In winter, 

 good hay, with corn stover and such fodder as is usual to or- 

 dinary farming, with a small feed of mangolds or Swedes at 

 noon. 



The same quantity of grain is fed as in summer. The feed 

 of the different animals is varied by their condition and circum- 

 stances, but the above statement is sufficiently accurate for all 

 practical purposes. 



In addition to the foregoing, I submit tabulated statements 

 showing the quantity of milk given by each cow and, heifer 

 entered for premiums for the term of one year, to which the 

 attention of the Committee is respectfully called. 



E. T. Miles. 



NANTUCKET. 



Thoroughbred Stock. — Jerseys. — The Jerseys have been 

 proved and fairly tested for twenty years in our State, since their 

 first importation from Europe, to be remarkable for the quality 

 of the cream from their milk. The cream has been known to 

 measure one and one-quarter inches on a body of milk five 

 inches high. None can doubt the butter-making properties of 

 their milk ; three hundred pounds of butter have been made 

 from a single cow of this breed in this country. One statement 

 mentions an average of four cows in one herd that averaged 

 three hundred pounds each. If the farmer wants butter for a 

 dairy product let him keep pure Jerseys. If he wants milk in 

 quantity, the Ayrshire will give it, and the milk is eminently 

 adapted to the manufacture of cheese. These breeds all possess 

 some points of excellence, and each is preferable for some dairy 

 requirements which others do not have. 



The Shorthorn was the earliest of these thoroughbreds im- 

 ported into our State, being introduced as early as the year 

 1818. It is well known as having come from the original stock 

 brought into England by the Danes prior to the Norman con- 

 quest. 



The Ayrshire began to be imported in 1831, and the Jersey 

 or Alderney as late as 1851. Time will not permit us to more 

 than allude to some of the peculiarities of these three breeds. 



