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years he was compelled to leave it, greatly to his regret. 

 He continued: 



No better proof of real gain can be found than the 

 creation of pleasant homes for the comfort of age and 

 the happiness of youth. When the great English critic, 

 Matthew Arnold, was in the country, on returning from 

 a visit in Essex County, he remarked that while the land 

 looked to him rough and unproductive, the landlord's 

 houses seemed neat and often elegant, with an air of 

 prosperity about them. 'But where,' he asked, 'do the 

 tenants, the working people live?' He seemed surprised 

 when I told him that the tenants were the landlords and 

 the workers the owners. 



1890—1900. 



Mention has been made m.ore than once of the old-time 

 Essex County cow, the Oakes cow of Danvers, nameless 

 and without pedigree, whose record of 4841^ lbs. of 

 butter, besides suckling a calf four weeks and allowing a 

 quart daily for family use, was unsurpassed in the county 

 and far wider circles for a half century as a butter- 

 maker. The record had been surpassed long since by 

 the imported animals of choice breeds. But in 1890 the 

 crown returned to Essex County. Mr. D. Fuller Appleton 

 of Ipswich, merchant and farmer, who had exhibited his 

 fine Cotswold sheep and his herd of Kerry cows in the 

 seventies, had become greatly interested in the Jerseys, 

 and had built up a choice herd. On April 22, 1889, he 

 began a test with his Eurotisama, born and bred on his 

 Ipswich farm. The test was ended April 21, 1890, and 

 the famous cow had produced 945 lbs. 9 oz. of butter, the 

 highest record yet attained by that breed, and Mr. Apple- 

 ton became the owner of the "Challenge Cup." 



It is interesting to note the successive stages by which 

 the record was advanced to this great figure. Thomas 

 Motley's imported Flora produced 511 lbs. 2 oz. in 1853. 

 In 1866, in another quarter, the record was advanced to 



