NEAT STOCK. 



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milk was weighed morning and evening, for the first ten days 

 in June and September, with the following result : — 



Eight quarts of her milk makes one pound of butter. 



Newburyport, Sept. 30, 1857. 



Statetnent of Aaron Dodge. 



The ten calves which I have entered for premium, do not 

 come under the rules for premium, as they are not over four 

 months and ten days old. They are ten, taken from eighty-six, 

 that I have raised since the 1st of November, 1856. I then 

 began to raise calves by getting them from milk farms, where 

 they could be obtained at one dollar per liead, thinking that I 

 might raise eight or ten heifers for cows, but they did not want 

 to part with heifers and not males, so I took both, and continued 

 through the winter to the 20th of May, 1857. 



I then had sixty-three living, and had lost seven by the scours 

 and cold weather. The herd had become so large that I then 

 turned them to pasture in New Hampshire, about ninety miles 

 off. I lost three by having to leave them out over night, in a 

 cold rain, snow and hail storm, on the journey. They became 



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