ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 53 



at night since they were fit to be cut. As her owner sold the 

 milk, her butter qualities have not been tried, which the Com- 

 mittee regret, as in the just estimation of the value of a cow, it 

 is material to consider the quality as well as quantity of her 

 milk. 



Your Committee award the second premium of ten dollars to 

 Isaac Osgood of Andover for his cow. She is nine years old ; 

 and without any extra feed has given seventeen quarts of milk in 

 a day and produced fifty pounds of butter in the month of June. 

 Mr. Osgood is entitled to much credit for his attention to the 

 improvement of his neat stock. 



Your Committee award the third premium of five dollars to 

 John Torrey of Newbury for his cow, nine years old. Her 

 appearance was rather ordinary ; but her produce good, having 

 given upon very moderate keeping nearly eight quarts per day, 

 and enabling her owner, who represents hiinself as a poor man, 

 to realize by the sale of her milk a handsome profit. 



As an example of good management we deem it proper to 

 subjoin the owner's account in his own form — 



" The statement I now make is from the 5th February, 1831, 

 to the present time, and the average mess per day has been 

 eight quarts lacking not quite a gill. Her calf was killed about 

 the first of February. 



Keeping. 



Half a ton of salt hay $ 2 00 



45 bushels of small grain, at 4id. - - 2 87 



Stalks and suckers from 195 rods of 

 land, excepting about half a load of 



dry stalks not given her yet 3 00 



One bushel of potatoes 20 



8 01 



Pasturing from 25th Aug. to the present time 1 00 



9 01 



Not being able to obtain a pasture she was kept up until the 

 25th August, a great part of the time to her disadvantage. 



