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chilled and died after they were turned to pasture. I lost two 

 by sco\irs and one by getting mired. The rest, fifty-seven in 

 number, are doing well. I have continued to raise all that I 

 could get since the 20th of May. There are now twenty-nine 

 calves at home, of which these ten are the oldest. 



I have tried to raise them as cheap as I could, and in order 

 to do this I have tried various ways, as milk has been high and 

 sells well on account of the high price of cows ; and many fami- 

 lies are not willing to pay for fodder and cows the money asked, 

 choosing to buy their milk. The price for milli is four cents 

 per quart at the house, in Beverly, and six cents delivered. I 

 tried oil cake boiled and mixed with milk, which does well if 

 too much is not given at a time, as in most cases it will give 

 calves the scours. I have used scalded Indian meal and milk, 

 and scalded flour and milk, all of which does very well if care 

 is taken not to over-feed, so as to bring on the scours. This 

 disease is bad, for it takes a long time for the calves to recover 

 from it, and if over-fed it will come on again. 



The cost of raising is about $2.50 per head, until weaned. 

 The last twenty-nine have been turned to pasture as soon as 

 taken from the cows, at one, two and three days old ; there 

 they learned to eat grass and drink water while young. When 

 from three to four weeks old they would eat sufficient to wean, 

 and were left to graze for themselves. No meal has been given 

 the last twenty-nine ; scalded meal and flour, milk and grass, 

 lias been their keeping. 



Beverly, Sept. 29, 1857. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Milch Cows and Heifers. — It is frequently the farmer's 

 ambition to keep a large number of cows, without special regard 

 to their quality. This, we believe, is a great mistake. The 

 care and keeping of a good cow usually costs no more than one 

 of an inferior quality ; while the income of the former may be 

 double that of the latter. The great disparity observed in the 

 profits of different cows, we believe is frequently owing quite as 

 much to a ditfcrence in treatment as to blood. Not that we 



