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words of instruction and encouragement. This was as it should 

 be. The farmer merits and needs this encouragement. Con- 

 tent to labor as he does from " early morn to latest eve," and 

 <'by the sweat of [)is brow to eat the bread of carefulness," it 

 is meet that he should be encour.^ged ; and what better encour- 

 agement can he have, than the approbation and sympathy of 

 those in authority ? 



The address before the society was delivered by Rev. Milton 

 P. Braman, of Dan vers. 



JOHN W. PROCTOR, President. 

 ALLEN W. DODGE, Secretary. 



Milch Cows. 

 The committee examined eleven cows, and awarded the 

 First premium of $10 to John H. Dunnels, of Ipswich. 

 Second premium of $9 to Volney C. Stow, of Salem. 

 Third premium of $8 to Joseph P. Pond, of Salem. 

 Fourth premium of $7 to Josiah Crosby, of Andover. 



John H. Dunnels^s Statement. 



I offer for premium, my cow, of native breed, eight years 

 old. She calved on the 12th day of July last, and the calf 

 was taken from her on the 15th day of August. She has been 

 kept during the past season on nothing but road feed, four 

 hours each day, with the exception of one pint of meal each 

 morning and evening. 



I have kept a daily account of her milk ever since her calf 

 was taken from her, being forty days. 



The whole amount of her milk during that time was 1526^ 

 pounds. Average per day during said time, thirty-six pounds. 



Ips.vich, Sept. 2Ath, 1851. 



Joseph P. Pond's Statement. 

 The cow offered for premium by me, is of native breed, nine 

 years old, and calved the 18th of August, 1850. She was 

 bought by her present owner, October 7th, of that year; since 

 which time, viz., two hundred and fifty-three days, ending this 

 day, and commencing fifty days after calving, when she was 



