52 ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 



Mass. from a native cow and sired by a bull of the Improved 

 Durham Short-Horn Stock, made at the rate of seventeen and 

 three-quarters pounds of butter per week the last summer upon 

 grass feed only. Jesse Putnam of Danvers by veiy liberal 

 feeding has obtained from four cows of our native stock upwards 

 of two hundred pounds of butter each in a season ; and Jesse 

 Curtis of Marblehead from cows of our native stock and with no 

 extra feed whatever has obtained at the rate of one hundred and 

 eighty-one pounds each per season. 



Your Committee refer to these well-attested facts with great 

 interest and pleasure, as showing what may be hoped for by 

 judicious, intelligent, persevering and systematic attempts to im- 

 prove the dairy stock of our country ; in the hope of exciting a 

 much greater attention to the subject among our farmers ; and in 

 the firm belief that any distinguished improvements among our- 

 selves in this most important branch of husbandry, besides the 

 honest satisfaction with which such success must be attended, 

 will amply remunerate the expense and essentially advance the 

 interest of the fortunate agent in effecting it. 



Your Committee will now proceed to award the premiums 

 offered on this occasion, and in this duty, which is always more 

 or less difficult, if they are unfortunate enough to err, they can 

 only say they have been faithful to their own best judgment. 



There were nine milch cows exhibited for premium. The 

 Committee are unanimous in awarding the first premium of 

 fifteen dollars to Samuel Noah of Danvers for his cow of native 

 stock. 



This cow Is nine years old and was raised in Wenham in this 

 county. She calved the 2Sth of April last; and in the one 

 hundred and forty-eight days succeeding the 2d of May she 

 yielded six thousand and fifty-four and a half pounds of milk 

 measuring five hundred and eighty-seven and one-eighth gallons, 

 which is more than four gallons per day. The most she has 

 given in one week has been three hundred and forty-three pounds. 

 One quart of milk (beer measure) weighs two pounds nine and a 

 quarter ounces. She has had no extraordinary feed. She has 

 been kept in a good pasture, and has had some green corn-stalks 



