30 ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 



extensive or complete, to be entitled to the Society's premium ; 

 but re!£;arcling it as a specimen of well directed industry, highly 

 creditable to Mr. Jenkins, and being desirous to excite others to 

 similar attempts, they recommend that a gratuity of five dollars 

 ■be presented to Mr. Jenkins. 



By order of the Committee. 



James H. Duncan, Chairman. 

 SeprL 27, 1832. 



No. II. OF COMMITTEE ON MILCH COWS AND 



HEIFERS. 



The Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society on Milch 

 -Cows and Heifers ojEFer the following Report — 



This subject is interesting not only to those who make farm- 

 ing their business, but to every family whose situation and cir- 

 cumstances make the keeping of this valuable animal practicable ; 

 it is important not only because cows supply the market with 

 4iillk and butter and cheese, but because they contribute so much 

 to substantial domestic comfort and convenience. 



Sportsmen and naturalists, and perhaps some others of the mi- 

 productive class, have supposed their favorite horse to be the 

 most valuable of domesticated animals, but the calculating utili- 

 tarian, and the discriminating farmer, have with united voice 

 pronounced the cow, " the noblest conquest made by man." 



There is a great difference in the quantity and quality of milk 

 given by cows of the same appearance, and treated in the same 

 manner. Not unfrequently in the same yard, the product of one 

 €0W is worth double that of another. A good cow will more 

 than repay her cost in the milk she will yield in six months. 

 Suppose her to give six quarts per day, this, for six months, at 

 three cents per quart, amounts to more than thirty dollars. It is 

 presumed that every man who keeps a cow is desirous of hav- 

 ing one of superior qualities, but it is more the result of good 

 fortune than prudence, if he obtains such an one, in the ordinary 



