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cream from the same, and it yielded three pounds of nice 

 butter. 



Methuen, September 26, 185-i. 



Statement of Eben G. Berry. 



I offer for premium four cows, from six to eight years old, 

 that have been in my possession more than three years ; each 

 of them has given milk more than one year, and all will be in 

 new milk again in November and December. When in new 

 milk in the spring, two of them have made ten pounds of butter 

 each per week, in the month of June. Either of them will 

 make eight pounds during the same time. With the exception 

 of this month, their milk has been sold daily through the year. 

 Three of them will give milk through the year, and one will go 

 dry ten weeks. Their feed is grass only, and the product of 

 their milk this day is as follows : first, six quarts ; second, five 

 and one-half quarts ; third, four quarts ; the fourth being dry. 

 The greatest quantity of milk for any number of weeks is, first, 

 sixteen quarts; second, fourteen; third, thirteen and one-half ; 

 fourth, fifteen quarts per day. 



The fourth cow is the most strongly marked for a model as I 

 understand Guenon's theory, but is the poorest of the lot in all 

 respects. 



North Daxvees, September 26, 1854. 



MIDDLESEX. 



Report of the Committee on Dairies. 



It was a general remark, as well by the visitors as in the 

 committee, that the exhibition of cattle this year was much in- 

 ferior to that of the last and of the several preceding years. 

 No doubt this was owing to the effect of the severest drought 

 ever remembered in the country, which in many towns cut off 

 the common and by far the best food of the cattle, reducing 

 their yield of milk, and severely injuring their appearance. 

 Ample and well-watered pastures seem to be essential to the 

 production of the best and largest quantity of milk and butter, 



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