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pared with manufactures and the mechanic arts, has derived ht- 

 tle advantage from labor-saving machines. The farmer is hterally 

 compelled to get his bread by the sweat of his brow ; and what- 

 ever invention may contribute to abridge his toil and enable him 

 at less expense to extend his productions must be welcome to 

 himself; by multiplying the means of human subsistence and 

 comfort will prove beneficial to the community ; and encourage 

 tlie laborious farmer with the hope of keeping in sight in his 

 own art, the best of all arts, though at a humble distance, of 

 the other rapidly advancing inventions of civilized hfe. 



Moses. Newell, 



Henry Colman, 



Joseph Kittredge, 



John W. Proctor, 



Paul Kent, 



Elias Putnam, 



Hector Coffin, 

 January, 1832. 



Committee 

 on 



No. V. ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 



The Committee on Milch Cows and Heifers beg leave to 

 report — 



That they regard the improvement of the Dairy Stock of the 

 County as an object of the highest importance, since the produce 

 of the Dairy must be always a considerable article with the farm- 

 ers of Essex, who are in the neighborhood of markets where but- 

 ter and cheese command a ready sale. 



The Committee believe that great improvement in our milking 

 stock may be effected. The laws of nature are uniform, and as 

 there is a tendency in every species of animals to transmit their 

 peculiar and constitutional qualities to their offspring, there can- 

 not be a doubt that the extraordinary property which some ani- 

 mals possess of making large secretions of rich milk may by 

 skill and care become the characteristic property and distinction 

 of a whole race. The obvious improvements, which have been 



