292 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of Joseph P. Reed. 



My cow is six years old, half Ayrshire and half Holderness 

 breed, and was raised by myself. On the 26th of April she 

 dropped a good heifer calf, which I am now raising. The cow 

 was dried in February, and is expected to calve in March. She 

 Was turned out to pasture on the 1st of May, was fed with corn 

 fodder, and since the 20th of August has been fed with other 

 food once a day. During the first ten days in June she yielded 

 three hundred and twenty-two and a half pounds of milk, which 

 made seventeen and a quarter pounds of butter ; and in the first 

 ten days of September she gave one hundred and eighty-two 

 and three-quarters pounds of milk, from which were made 

 twelve and three-quarters pounds of butter. She has been 

 kept with six other cows, and driven half a mile to pasture. 

 The milk has not been kept separate except during the times 

 specified. 



Princeton, 1854. 



WORCESTER. 



Report of the Committee on Products of the Dairy. 



Upon the schedule presented by the secretary are the names 

 of five competitors, three only of whom have filed in specifica- 

 tions agreeably to the rules of the society — namely, Amos F. 

 Knight, West Boylston; William S. Lincoln, Worcester; and 

 Henry Boyles, Princeton. 



A brief synopsis of the statements filed by those to whom 

 premiums were awarded will be given. 



From the statement of Mr. Lincoln, it appears that his dairy 

 consists of thirteen cows, twelve of which arc kept for dairy 

 purposes, and one for family use ; that for trial these cows have 

 been divided into two lots of six each; that in the first lot 

 were one full-blood Ayrshire and one half-blood, one Devon, 

 one thorough-bred Ayrshire, and two commonly called "na- 

 tives." 



From the 22d of May to the 22d of September, a period of 

 four months, the product of butter from these six cows amount- 



