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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



No. 8 three-year-old heifer calved March 6 ; calf taken off 

 April '29 ; will calve May 15. 



No. 9 two-year-old heifer calved May 28; calf taken off 

 July 2 ; will calve April 20. 



No. 10 two-year-old heifer calved June 12 ; calf taken off 

 August 1 ; will calve May 1. 



No. 1 cow, 



milked from May 9 to September 1. 



2 cow, 



3 cow, 



4 cow, 



5 cow, 



6 cow, 



7 three years old, 

 " 8 three years old, 

 " 9 two years old, 



" 10 two years old, 



Five swine were kept through the summer almost exclusively 

 on milk. 



The above dairy was kept on hay through the winter, with 

 the addition of two quarts of cob meal daily to the cows and 

 three year olds, from the time of calving to the middle of May; 

 since then they have had nothing but common pasture feed, with 

 the addition of a few cornstalks daily since August 19 ; fed in 

 the morning. 



Princeton, September 26, 1854. 



Statement of Amos F. Knight. 



The cow which I present for premium is one of a herd of ten 

 kept by myself the present season. Age, nine years. Breed, 

 one-half Ayrshire and one-half " native." Calved April 25 ; 

 time of next calving, March 19. Keeping, the same as the rest 

 of the herd — common pasture, with the addition, since the 8th 

 of August, of corn fodder once, and for the last three weeks 

 twice a day. 



