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the time of trial, their unquestioned inferior pasturage, and 

 the difference in expense of keeping in the meal fed by Mr. 

 Robinson, in connection with the absolute product and profit of 

 each dairy, are unanimously of opinion tjiat William S. Lincoln, 

 of Worcester, is entitled to the first premium offered by the 

 trustees of the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of 

 Agriculture, " For the best dairy of cows, not less than six in 

 number, which shall have been owned by the exhibiter, and 

 kept within the county, not less than five months previous to 

 the cattle show," seventy-five dollars ; 



And that William Robinson, Jr., of Barre, is entitled to the 

 premium " for the second best," fifty dollars ; and the committee 

 adjudge the premiums accordingly. 



The committee, in justice to these competitors, cannot for- 

 bear to add, that, in the careful attention manifested by them 

 in the selection of their cows for the products of their dairies, 

 respectively, in the order, system, and good management of 

 these daries, the method and precision of their accounts, and 

 the value of the facts and observations conveyed in their sev- 

 eral communications, they have fully earned the pecuniary re- 

 ward of their experiments, and especially deserve the thanks 

 of the agriculturists of the State. These gentlemen are among 

 the best farmers of the county, and their farms, within the per- 

 sonal knowledge of some of the members of the committee, are 

 conducted with skill, orderly arrangement, and good success. 

 They are both in the prime and vigor of life, and afford exam- 

 ples of personal industry, assiduity, and intelligence, in the 

 direction and application of labor to the cultivation of the 

 earth, well worthy of notice and imitation by the young yeo- 

 manry of the country. 



In addition to the dairies before mentioned, for which pre- 

 miums are awarded, Mr. Lincoln gives a detailed account of 

 the separate product of six other cows and heifers of his stock 

 the past season. The information will be useful as the result 

 of further careful attention to the properties and profits of this 

 description of animals ; but the proceeds being less than from 

 his older cows, it is not necessary to enter into the particulars 

 of the comparison. 



Mr. William W. Watson, of Princeton, on the day of the 



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