SB ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 



English herd books. Should she receive your favorable re- 

 marks it will gratify, gentlemen, your very obedient servant, 



Hectob CorriN. 



R. A. MERRIAM 3 STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, on Milch 

 Coivi and Heifers. 



Gentlemen — 



My cow was raised in Canterbury, N. H. is five 

 yisars old passed, is perfectly gentle and docile, allowing any one 

 to milk or handle her. She will go peaceably against any ap- 

 pearance of fence. She has had three calves, coming in when 

 she was three years old. Her last calf was sold the first of June 

 last at 3^ cents per lb. amounting to between five and six dollars 

 at five weeks old, a season when veal is the most plenty. She 

 has had during the season nothing but common grass feed, en- 

 tering upon fall feed, so called, about the first of the present month. 



The average quantity of milk per day for the last four 

 months has been twenty-six and a half pounds : she has given 

 seventeen quarts in a day. The quality of her milk is thought 

 to be exceedingly good. She has been kept for family use, 

 and her milk used freely, six in the family, and without any 

 reference to this exhibition, besides which she has yielded eight 

 pounds of butter of the first quality in a week. 



Recapitulation : — 



Peaceable, kind, and docile. 

 Greatest quantity of milk per day 17 qts. 

 Average, _ - . - 26^ lbs. 

 Quantity of butter per week, - 8 lbs. 



R. A. Merriam. 

 Topsfeld, Sept. 25, 1RJ;{4. 



