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near calving. She was dried early in September, and dropped 

 her calf the last of October, 1857, having run dry some weeks 

 longer than usual. She gave in November, December and 

 January last, fifteen and one-half quarts of milk per day, when 

 she gradually decreased to ten quarts in May, which quantity 

 she has very nearly kept up, as she gives something more than 

 eight quarts per day at this time. 



Her feed in winter is English hay, husks and stalks, and her 

 share of the weather-caught and poor hay that grows on the 

 farm, as she ties up with and fares as the rest do. In summer 

 she stands in the barn and is fed on grass, corn fodder and hay. 

 In winter and while fed on hay in the summer, she has from 

 one to three pints of meal per day. 



I am aware that the quantity which she gives when new milch, 

 seems small for an extra cow, but when you consider that when 

 within two months of calving she gives as much as an ordinary 

 new milch cow, and that her keeping is not calculated to force 

 her milking capacities at all, I think it will be conceded that 

 her average during the year, something over nine quarts per 

 day, is fully up to the average of extra cows. She has been 

 turned out a part of the forenoon for the last month. She was 

 eight years old the 30th of last March, and is to calve on the 

 2d of January next. I sell her milk, and know nothing of her 

 qualities as a butter cow. 



Concord, Septeniber 29, 1858. 



WORCESTER. 



Report of the Committee on Dairies. 

 The Committee on dairies have the honor to report that they 

 have attended to their duties, and have carefully examined the 

 statements of Messrs. Samuel Ellsworth and William Robinson, 

 Jr., of Barre, the only two competitors for the society's pre- 

 miums. They have also examined, in the society's pens, a 

 representation of the cows of each gentleman's dairy, and 

 samples of their butter and cheese in the exhibition hall below. 

 Mr. Ellsworth's dairy consists of eleven cows, of various ages, 

 ranging from three to eleven years, all of which are grades of 

 the Durham breed ; nine of them were raised by himself, and 



