18 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Six cows from eight to ten years old, inclusive, average nine years 

 and four months, weighed 6,430 pounds evening weight. Loss on this 

 weight, in the morning, 285 pounds. Average loss on each cow, 

 47.50. Loss per cent, on evening weight, 4.43. 



Eleven cows from four to six years old, average four years and nine 

 months, weighed in the evening 10,145 pounds. Loss on this weight 

 in the morning, 565 pounds. Average loss on each cow, 51.36 

 pounds. Average loss per cent, on evening weight, 5.56. The eleven 

 young cows lost 1.14 per cent, more than the six old cows. 



The average numher of days after calving of the twelve cows that 

 gave milk during the ten days was 1554-. Daily average yield of milk 

 of the same cows, 14.30 pounds each. Average milk on average 

 weight of the same cows, daily, was 1.53 per cent. The average falling 

 off in milk of these twelve cows, since the thirtieth of June, is 1.63 

 per cent, of their average live weight. 



The committee would suggest the expediency of an application to 

 the legislature for a grant of funds, to enable the Board to continue 

 the experiments, and to try others which are calculated to determine 

 the individual and comparative value of the different breeds of cattle, 

 and the comparative value of the several kinds of roots grown in the 

 State, with good English hay, corn-fodder and other substances usually 

 fed to cattle. 



John Brooks. 

 Moses Newell. 



The principal crops raised on the farm during the past 

 season were: 1,393 bushels of potatoes; 1,819 bushels of 

 Indian corn as taken from the field, or 909^ bushels of shelled 

 corn; 2,258 bushels of carrots; 70 tons of hay; 1,119 bushels 

 of ruta-bagas, and sufficient quantities of the various smaller 

 products, as pease, beans, beets, squashes, <fcc, for the use of 

 the institution. 



The experiments detailed in the report of the Committee on 

 Crops will be found to be of great value and interest, though 

 not in all respects so satisfactory as they would have been had 

 the season proved more favorable. It lias been already stated 

 that the subject of fertilizers was put into the hands of this 

 committee. This is a matter of vast importance to the com- 

 munity, for on these depend the success and profit of every 

 operation on the farm. These experiments relate to the com- 



