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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of Green Wildes. 



My cow was seven years old the 20tli of July ; she is half- 

 blood Ayrshire, from the State hull. She brought her first calf 

 before she was two years old, and has had a calf every year 

 since. I milked her the present year the first day of April, and 

 she brought her sixth calf the 29th. Her keeping through the 

 winter was salt hay and damaged black grass, with two quarts 

 of cob meal ; after xVpril, three quarts of meal and shorts, and 

 no English hay. She has been kept in a common pasture with 

 the other cows, with the addition of one quart of meal and one 

 quart of shorts per day. 



Byfield, Sept. 29, 1857. 



Statement of Paul T. Winkley. 



The cow which I offer for premium is six years old. I bought 

 her when she was four months old, and have owned her ever 

 since. Her breed is unknown. She had her last calf last May, 

 and is to calve again next May. Her keeping has been, since 

 she was turned out last spring, nothing but pasture feed. Her 



