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Dominick Thompson's Jersey cow, on the twentieth of June, 

 gave thirteen quarts and one pint of milk. The same weighed 

 twenty-nine pounds and twelve ounces, and yielded one pound 

 and fourteen ounces of butter. September 20, the yield of milk 

 was nine quarts, weighing nineteen pounds and five ounces, and 

 yielding one pound and three ounces of butter. Prom one 

 quart of the last of her milk, for five milkings put together, 

 making five quarts of milk, was made one pound one and one- 

 half ounces of butter. 



Israel Whitcomb's grade cows " Lady Simmons," one-half 

 Jersey, one-half native, and " Minnie," seven-eighths Jersey 

 and one-eighth native, made together, in the month of April, ten 

 pounds of butter ; May, forty-five pounds three ounces ; June, 

 ninety-six pounds fourteen ounces ; July, seventy-nine pounds 

 ten ounces ; August, sixty-eight pounds four ounces ; Septem- 

 ber, sixty-seven pounds ten ounces ; making a total of three 

 hundred and sixty-one pounds nine ounces from April 17 to 

 September 30. Each of the cows had calves in April, which 

 were furnished with new milk until they were five weeks old, 

 which accounts for the limited quantity of butter in April and 

 May. 



HINGHAM. 



From the Report of the Committee. 

 When we consider the importance and the demand for the 

 best stock that can be furnished, with a view to an increasing 

 want for a breed of cows for the dairy, which shall be great 

 producers of milk, of a quality rich in nutriment and abound- 

 ing in the elements that make cheese and butter, we shall duly 

 estimate the efforts of those who have entered upon a course of 

 experiments to test the merits of the several breeds of cows, the 

 most celebrated in those countries of Europe where especial 

 means have been employed for many years to obtain these 

 results. Whether these foreign breeds of cattle are to super- 

 sede the ill-bred common stock which for more than two cen- 

 turies has been raised among us, and which has become inured 

 to our soil and climate, is one of the results these experiments 

 must work out. Iti the mean time the increased demand and 

 the high price of all promising cattle of the imported breeds 

 make it an object, in a pecuniary point of view, for the farmer, 



