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with nineteen pounds of butter a week during her lonely stay. 

 It is a rule adopted by the cow family, that whether she feeds in 

 the flush pasture of June or in the dry one of August, whether 

 she is compelled to spend her winters at the cold corner of the 

 barn, or in the comfortable stall beneath it, she gently and affec- 

 tionately makes her daily contribution of milk. After having 1 given 

 up all the milk she has been able to manufacture from the food she 

 has received above what was necessary to sustain animal life, — 

 yes more, after having lived a life of benevolence, — after having 

 done " what she could " to furnish an element that is used largely 

 in pastry, she gives her body to furnish food for the hungry. 

 Tell me if you can what Bank discounts twice a day to the same 

 party, except the Cow Bank. 



Truly, may the Farmer's boy go 

 Singing, calling co boss, co boss, eo, co ! 

 And the milkmaid in her dream, 

 Drum in her pail with the splashing stream, 



Singing so boss ! so boss, so ! 



Awards: Two-vear-olds having had a calf — Geo. R. Cooper, Stockbridge, 

 $5; A. W. Kellogg, 4. 



Not having had a calf — John M. Cook, Lenox, $5; Geo. M. Shepardson, 

 Lanesborough, 4; John Cook, Lenox, .'3; Win. Binnell, 2; .John 

 Churchill, 1. 



H. H. Noursk, ^ 



Franklin Barnes, > Committee. 

 Daniel D. Kendall, ) 



TENTH DIVISION. 



5fearling Grade Heifers. — A. C. Butler, Lenox, $4; Geo. M. Shepard- 

 son. Lanesboro', :> ; M. W. Butler, Lenox, 2; J. W. Newton, Lanes- 

 boro', 1. 



Grade Heifer Calves. — Wm. Mack, Lanesboro', 3; George Reed, Lanes- 



bor', 2; O. F. Farnum, Lanesboro 1 , 1. 



H. M. Owen, ) r . -,, 



c > Committee. 



Henry Smith, $ 



eleventh division. 

 Herds of Cattle.— John E. Merrill, $12; Frank Nourse, Lanesboro', 10; 

 M. F. Watkins, Hinsdale, 8; T. H. French, 6. 



W. H. Palmer, Chairman. 



TWELFTH DIVISION. 



Rams, Fine Wool. — Giles Torrey, Williainstown, $4 ; James H. Goodrich, 

 Williamstown, 3; D. B. Galusha, Williamstown, 2. 



^Middle Wool.— W. If. Palmer, Stockbridge, $4 ; Geo. W. Cook, Rich- 

 mond, 3. 



Coarse Wool.— John L. Cole, Williamstown, $4 ; C. B. Benedict, West 

 Stockbridge, 3; John E. Merrill, 2; F. A. Palmer, Stockbridge, 1. 



Henry Werden, Chairman. 



