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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Average weight per day, 33 ^^^^ pounds ; average measure, 

 13| quarts per day, seven months after calving. 



Wiicn on trial we could jiot set all her milk for butter as 

 we were obliged to use some of it, but it is of superior quality ; 

 we have made 158 pounds of butter this season, after using 

 what milk avo wanted, and selling some quarts besides. Said 

 cow has never had any meal or roots. 



From the Report of the Committee on Heifers. 



To a great many of the members of this society that part of 

 their stock which constitutes their dairy, is of more consequence 

 than all the rest. Upon all such the question is often pressed, 

 how can the best cows be procured, and their number kept 

 complete, when vacancies occur from age, disease or accident? 

 Is it better or more profitable to raise our own cows than to 

 depend upon buying such chance animals as may come in our 

 way ? In the opinion of your committee, there can be but one 

 answer to tliis question, and that is, raise your ovvji dairy 

 stock. And we are glad to find, from the large number and 

 good quality of heifers on exhibition to-day that this opinion 

 is becoming more prevalent among the members of this asso- 

 ciation. Without hesitation, tiicn, we recommend increased 

 attention to the rearing of heifer calves. Breed from the. best 

 cows you possess or can procure ; and, as the good qualities 

 of the animal probably depend quite as much on the male 



