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its buttcraccous properties, is entitled to the consideration and 

 the action of the society. The directors are only the executors of 

 the will of the society : what they determine, is ours to execute. 

 The society has spoken it, that no premium shall be awarded 

 without satisfactory evidence of the fulfilment of the conditions 

 prescribed. Sustained in our conclusion by the opinion of the 

 awarding; committee, and by the decision of the trustees of 

 other societies under similar circumstances, the directors have 

 decided that the premiums recommended by the committee 

 cannot be approved by them, except in the case of A. M. Carle- 

 ton and J. H. Demond, whose satisfactory evidence entitles 

 them to receive the premiums awarded. 



Statement of Amos F. Carleton. 



In reply to the various interrogatories of the society, I will 

 state that the cow which I offer for premium I have owned for 

 two years and seven months. She was six years old last Jan- 

 uary. She is of Durham and Ayrshire stock. I have usually 

 sold her milk, but have tried it for butter, and found the prod- 

 uct of seven to eight quarts to be one pound of butter ; her 

 feed has been good pasturage during the summer, green corn 

 fodder and pumpkins in the fall, and good English hay, with 

 some dry corn fodder and about a peck of common turnips per 

 day and no meal in winter ; and the price I have obtained for 

 her milk, all of which I have sold except what was required for 

 my family use, has been four cents per quart for four months, 

 and five cents for the balance of the year, taken at my house. 

 The cow calved on the 19th of August, and her calf was sold 

 on the 22d of August, for the purpose of being raised. In the 

 following table will be found a statement of the product of the 

 cow, in conformity with the rules of the society : — 



