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shelves in our cheese rooms. We are also instructed of the 

 importance of constant attention to the kind and gentle treat- 

 ment of our cows, and admonished that we should never allow 

 them to be worried or chased by brutes, whether biped or quad- 

 ruped. 



JOHN W. LINCOLN, Chairman. 



Wheat and Brome Grass. 



After the time allowed for making entries for farms, a letter 

 was received from Benjamin Willard, of Lancaster, stating that 

 he had a handsome field of wheat and a species of a new kind 

 of grass of superior quality, which he was desirous of exhibit- 

 ing to the committee. In compliance with his request, the 

 committee visited his farm on the 10th day of July last. They 

 were shown a very beautiful field of winter Avheat, also one 

 of spring wheat. The spring wheat was uncommonly large, the 

 winter wheat, it was reported, had been much thrown out of 

 the ground by the action of the frost, but had been saved, by 

 having a field roller passed over it, early in the spring. 



They then proceeded to a pasture of seven acres, of very light, 

 sandy soil, on which they were informed six young cattle, and 

 thirteen sheep had been kept for the season, and which had 

 been laid down with the seed of brome grass and white clover; 

 much white clover was seen in blossom, and some of the brome 

 grass. The surface was an unbroken turf of good feed, alto- 

 gether better than is usually seen on such soil. On the interval 

 lands the brome grass was quite tall and very thick, giving a very 

 large yield. The stalks of grass being large, the hay would be 

 coarse, and probably not so good as fine hay ; and there would 

 be much waste, unless cut with a machine ; whether it would 

 then be profitable, must depend upon the proportion of nutritive 

 matter in the grass. The brome grass, (botanically bromus) is of 

 a large genus of grasses having numerous species, most of which 

 are annuals, is indigenous in Great Britain, and is described by 

 their writers on grasses as a weed, which is not relished by cat- 

 tle. They state that " it has for a considerable time, been in 

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