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ing them in the same localities, while sales and exchange pro- 

 duce a contrary effect, and should, wherever reasonably practi- 

 cal, l)e studiously avoided. A cow transported upon the railroad 

 will be found to have diminished the quantity of her milk. The 

 same consequences may result from driving upon the highway, 

 heat, weariness or fright, or from all these causes combined. 

 Whenever a removal is effected it should be attended with the 

 utmost care. When a cow has been accompanied to her new home, 

 and has been accompanied by the former owner and introduced 

 to the new milkmaid or man, the results have been good. None 

 hwi gentlemen and gentlewomen, and boys and girls aspiring to 

 be such, should be permitted to approach milch cows, "\^^lip- 

 ping, kicking, pounding people should not be tolerated in the 

 stall where the cow should always be milked. She should 

 remain upon a platform in the stall from the evening to the 

 morning milking, where she will be most comfortal)le and quiet 

 if the stable is kept clean during fly-time. The length of each 

 stall must of course, to secure cleanliness, be adapted to the 

 length of the cow to occupy it. 



A want of knowledge of the habits of cows is not unfre- 

 quently the cause of ill-feeling. A man purchases a cow, is 

 told she gives twenty quarts of milk per day, and makes a 

 dozen pounds of butter a week. He takes her home, puts her 

 into a yard alone. She is discontented and timorous, does not 

 take lier usual supply of food and drink, the expected quantity 

 of milk and butter is reduced one-half or perhaps more, and he 

 is offended with his neighbor without cause, because the repre- 

 sentations made at the time of the sale were strictly true. 



Although your committee was unanimous in awarding the 

 first premium to Mr. B. B. Trask's eleven year old native — 

 entered as having given nine and one-half pounds of butter per 

 week from December, 1864, to March, 1865, and yielding this 

 quantity on food not considered favorable to butter, such as hay 

 and turnips, let it be remarked that the committee considered 

 the intrinsic qualities of tlie two Devons exhibited by Mr. Wil- 

 liam Mattoon, of Springfield, as superior and more worthy of the 

 first honor, and would have so proclaimed, had not a written 

 statement in his case been omitted. Owing to the great import- 

 ance of this feature in the exhibition of milch cows, and in con- 



