24 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



MiLcn Cows. 



The committee on milch cows submit the following re- 

 port : — 



That there were six entries ; five cows only came under the 

 notice of the committee, and one of those examined had no 

 statement of her products accompanying the entry. The com- 

 mittee are of opinion that better cows have been exhibited at 

 former shows ; still, many of them are considered of good 

 quality. 



The committee would remark, that the statement of the 

 produce, in some cases, is for a short period ; and in some in- 

 stances the record of the produce is for former years, and not 

 for the past season. 



The cow entered in the name of Edmund Dorr, of Salem, 

 judging from the report made of her products, may be of 

 superior excellence, but after a thorough search among the 

 stock, Mr. Dorr's cow was not found, nor any one to account 

 for her. 



No statement of the produce of the cow entered in the name 

 of Isaac B. Cobb, of Methuen, came to the hands of the com- 

 mittee, and no one appeared, at the time of the examination, 

 to give any information in relation to her. She was a black 

 lined-back cow, apparently old, and exhibited signs of being a 

 sood milker. 



The cow presented by James Day, of Haverhill, is reported 

 to be seven years old, and to average sixteen quarts of milk 

 per day during the month of June, and that there was made 

 from her milk, from June 1st to July 10th, a period of forty 

 days, sixty-three and a half pounds of butter, being a little 

 more than a pound and a half per day, and requiring about ten 

 quarts of milk to produce one pound of butter. From July 

 10th to September 25th, eighty-nine and a half pounds of but- 

 ter was made from her milk, being about one and one-Six- 

 teenth pound per day. Up to the 15th of August she was 

 kept in an old pasture ; since that time she has been fed, morn- 

 ing and evening, with green corn. 



Mrs. Charles H. Bigelow presents a cow, said to be ten years 

 old. She is reported to have produced 127 lbs. 3 oz. of butter 

 from May 21st to January 10th following, besides two quarts 



