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not say, but we never thought there was much income derived 

 from a cow's horn, which is the most prominent development 

 of this breed. 



In behalf of the Society we desire to present our thanks to 

 Mr. Appleton for exhibiting these animals, which give us so in- 

 teresting and instructive a lesson upon the effects of food and 

 shelter upon our domestic animals. A few centuries ago these 

 were identical with those from which the improved Short-horns 

 of the present day came. High feed, good shelter, and careful 

 breeding, generation after generation, have produced the one, 

 while the other left exposed on the hills of Ireland, scantily 

 fed, year after year, have become diminutive in many respects, 

 with enlarged horns. 



Committee — Wm. K. Putnam, Mark F. Hill, William B. 

 Carlton, Eldred S. Pai'ker, George W. Sanborn. 



STATEMENT OF J. D. W. FRENCH. 



CocHicHEwicK Farm, North Axdover, 



Sept. 23, 1869. 

 Mr. C. p. Preston: 



Sec, Essex Co. Agricultural Society, 



I px'esent for the premium given for the best Milch Cow, my 

 cow, "Pride," six years old ; a grade animal of whose pedigree 

 I have been unable to gain any information. I think she has 

 both Ayrshire and Durham blood. She dropped her calf 1st 

 of April, 1869, and was served by my Ayrshire bull on the 

 20th of June. The first ten days in June she averaged nineteen 

 quarts of milk per day, which weighed at the rate of 8| lbs. 

 per gallon, or 42f lbs. for the days' milk. The first ten days 

 in September she gave eleven quarts per day. Her feed for 

 two months previous to calving was good hay. After calving, 

 until she was turned out to grass, May 23rd, four quarts of 

 shorts and one peck of roots per day besides her allowance of 

 hay. For the past two months the pasture feed has been sup- 



