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old. She calved on the 30th of July last, and has been kept 

 through the season in a common pasture, and the feed has 

 been both dry and short. One week in September, commenc- 

 ing with the 21st, we made from her milk nine pounds and 

 one ounce of butter. During that week she was fed with two 

 quarts of meal per day. 



Concord, Oct. 6, 1852. 



Milch Cows. 



The committee on milch cows, respectfully submit the 

 following report : — 



That at the cattle show holden at Concord, on the sixth day 

 of October, A. D. 1852, the exhibition of milch cows was unu- 

 sually large and fine. 



So numerous were the rivals for your premiums, that your 

 committee found the time allotted for making examination, 

 for consultation and decision, quite too short to satisfy them- 

 selves, much less can they hope to have satisfied all the com- 

 petitors. We had scarcely time to examine the claims for 

 premiums. Many handsome animals that were offered for 

 exhibition, and some of which might perhaps have been justly 

 entitled to gratuities, at least to a commendatory word, the 

 committee were obliged to pass almost unobserved. 



There were eighteen cows offered for premiums — 12 native 

 breed ; 2 Ayrshire breed ; 2 Devon breed ; 2 Alderney. 



Native Breed. The first premium of $8 was awarded to 

 Nathan Brooks, of Acton. This cow was 7 years old ; calved 

 September 2, 1851, and again, September 20, 1852. From 

 September 2, 1851, to August 5, 1852, she gave 3,739 beer 

 quarts of milk — was giving three quarts of milk per day when 

 milking was discontinued, forty-six days before she calved — 1^ 

 quarts of her milk makes a pound of butter. Keeping, in win- 

 ter, good hay, 1 quart Indian meal and 1 quart oat meal per 

 day ; in summer, grass only. 



The second premium of $6 was awarded to S. Wheeler, of 

 Framingham. This cow was 7 years old, calved August 12, 

 1852 ; the last week in September gave 14 quarts strained milk 



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