ON MILCH C(;\VS. 37 



No. 111. ON MILCH COWS. 



The Committee on Milch Cows and Heifers, consistino; of 

 Edward Tappan, Jr., of Newbury, George Osgood and Ezra 

 Batchelder, of Danvers, Thomas G. Foster, of Andover, and 

 Horace Ware, of Salem, Report — 



That there were exhibited for premium and exhibition — 



One cow owned by Rev. Charles C. Sewall, of Danvers, 

 with a sample of her butler, and a particular statement of her 

 milk the past season. 



One cow owned by Col. Amos Shelden, of Beverly, six years 

 old. 



One cow owned by Ezra Batchelder, of Danvers, with a sam- 

 ple of her butter. 



Two cows owned by Ebenezer King, of Danvers. 



One cow owned by Eben Upton, of Danvers. 



Two cows, of the Durham short horn breed, owned by E. 

 Hersey Derby, Esq., of Salem. 



There were no heifers presented, of the description for which 

 premiums are ofi'ered. 



The committee award the premiums as follows : — 

 To Charles C. Sewall, 1st premium, ^10 00. 

 Ezra Batchelder, 2d do. 7. 



Ebenezer King, 3d do. 5. 



The committee would have been pleased to have had an op- 

 portunity to examine more of the fine cows in the county, that 

 might have been exhibited ; and to have seen the statements 

 of their produce. The animals that were exhibited were good, 

 but if there had been many more, the exhibition would have 

 been much better. Let there be brought forward each year, 

 one cow from each town in the county, and this the best that can 

 be found therein ; and then this exhibition of cows alone would 

 well pay our farmers for coming to examine it. The difference 

 between g^od cows and poor ones is all important in the man- 

 agement of a dairy, that most essential item in a farmer's calcu- 

 lations. 



For the committee, 



Sept. 30th, 1835. EDWARD TAPPAN, Jr. 



