ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES, &LC. 55 



She uniformly comes in, the first part of May ; has 

 averaged the 4 succeeding months, 28 lbs. of milk per 

 day; 18 quarts being the most she has given in one 

 day ; quality of milk such as to yield 12 lbs. per week, 

 in the best of feed, of first rate butter. 



Her calf last year, 5 Vveeks old, weighed about 210 

 lbs., dressed 132 ; was sold to the butcher for 10 dol- 

 lars. The present year intending to raise, it had but 

 half the milk ; — finally sold it for between 9 and 10 

 dollars, at six weeks old, to the butcher, at 6 cts. per 

 lb. alive, about the middle of June. 



She is perfectly kind and peaceable against any 

 fence, has never spilled a drop of milk since we 

 owned her — five years. 



Respectfully yours, R. A. Merriam. 



Topsfield, Sept. 27, 1837. 



ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES, &c. 



The Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society on 

 Domestic Manufactures, consisting of D. P. King, 

 E. S. Davis, Stuart Chase, George Hodges and 

 Jeremiah Spoflford, assisted by Messrs. Fox, Black, 

 and Noyes, Report : 



That the whole number of entries was eighty-eight, 

 comprising many useful articles, and some of great 

 ingenuity and beauty. The articles were not in ev- 

 ery case accompanied by statements sufficiently pre- 

 cise and accurate. An account of the cost of the 

 materials and of the time employed, as well as 

 of the age of the manufacturer, are often necessary 

 to direct the judgment of the Committee. In de- 

 termining the comparative merits of articles so nu- 

 merous and various in kind, it is difficult, in a short 

 and hurried examination, to do justice. Some arti- 



