pletnented with corn fodder and cabbage leaves. I would here 

 -state that all my stock have received like treatment during the 

 summer; but no grain. I sell my milk, so have not tested it 

 for butter. 



I also present for premium my full-blood Ayrshire bull, "Mc. 

 Donald" 3d; (Ayrshire Herd Book, No. 263.) He was calved 

 February 18, 1867, so is two years seven months and ten days 

 old. Sire, Mc Donald 2nd, 262 ; dam, Bessie, 268. 



I also present my full-blood Ayrshire heifer, "Enid," for 

 the premium given for the best yearling heifer. She was calved 

 July 22, 1868. Sire, John Alden, 218 ; dam. Frolic, 412, 



I have on exhibition my Ayrshire cow, "Madge," (A. H. 

 Book,) 575. Calved Aug. 1860. Sire, Dandy 7th; dam, 

 Maarsrie. 



STATEMENT OF MOSES A. PLUMER. 



I offer for premium the cow "Lillian." She is grade Jersey 

 and native, and is now four years old. 



The first ten days in June she averaged twenty quarts of 

 milk per day ; and the first ten days in September sixteen 

 ■quarts per day. She dropped her calf the 18th of May, and 

 will calve again the 10th of April, 1870. She is fed on Indi- 

 an meal and shorts — eatingtwo quarts of the former, and four 

 of the latter per day. Her milk is sold from the house at six 

 cents per quart in summer, and seven cents in winter, and is of 

 excellent quality. She is pastured about a mile and one half 

 from the barn. 



Newburyport, Sept., 27th, 1869. 



STATEMENT OF E. DONAHOE. 



I offer for premium the four-year-old grade Durham and 

 Jersey cow, "Fanny." She dropped her last calf April 22, 

 1869, and will calve again the last of April, 1870. She has 

 had a fair pasture, and one quart of meal and three quarts of 



