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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Augustus Whitman's Statement. 



GRADE SHORTHORNS. 



The herd has been soiled the entire summer upon oats, 

 vetches, corn-fodder and grass cut for them. A few of the 

 herd, low in flesh, have had the equivalent of four quarts of 

 shorts per day, the rest nothing but green feed. 



Statement of N. B. Reed. 



I offer for premium one herd of four cows for butter. Their 

 ages are: No. 1, thirteen years; No. 2, ten years ; No. 3, five 

 years ; No. 4, four years ; breed mixed or grade, raised in 

 Princeton. They all of them dropped their calves in February 

 last, and are to calve again in January, 1869. They made, in 

 the June trial, thirty-three pounds of butter on grass feed alone, 

 besides what milk and cream was used in the family of six per- 

 sons ; the corresponding days in September, twenty-four pounds, 

 with a family of nine persons. Keeping, pasture, with fodder 

 corn. 



I have made, during the past six months, from the four cows, 

 six hundred and eighty-six pounds of butter, besides furnishing 

 milk and cream for a family of from six to nine persons. I 

 have sold my butter for fifty to fifty-six cents per pound. 



Princeton, September 21, 1868. 



Statement of I. B. Woodioard. 



I wish to enter for premium one black cow, (name " Topsy,") 



for butter. "Topsy" was five years old last March. She 



dropped her calf in February. Her keeping was only good hay, 



which was given her until the first of June, then she had noth- 



