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No other cows exhibited had the required statements which 

 •would entitle them to a j)remium. 



Wc would make honorable mention of the Kerry cows ex- 

 hibited by D. F. Appleton, of Ipswich. 



Chairman of Committee — AVm. K. Putnam. 



HEED OF MILCH COWS. 



The Committee report tliat but one entry under this head 

 was made, that by Francis Dane, of Hamilton. This entry 

 •consisted of five pure Jerseys, whose average yield through 

 the season had been twelve quarts each per day, and through 

 June and July fourteen quarts. Their milk is stated to be 

 -sery rich and peculiarly adapted to the making of butter ; their 

 feed, grass, corn fodder, meal and sliorts, two to three quarts 

 of the latter per day when the pastures were sJiort. The 

 Committee regret that there were not other entries of herds of 

 milch cows, considering it of more importance that a large 

 number of cows on a large farm should be good milkers, than 

 that here and there a single cow should be found of extra 

 milking properties. It is only by the greatest care that the 

 standard can be kept up in a large herd, but where it is done 

 and the purity of a particular breed maintained, it will assur- 

 edly pay in the increased demand and price of the progeny of 

 such breed. Mr. Dane's young Jerseys already commend 

 themselves to purchasers, and we see no reason why the de- 

 mand for this stock, for years to come, Avill not be kept up at 

 least to its present mark. 



We award to Mr. Dane the first premiiun of $1'). 



For the Committee — Allen W. Dodoe. 



HEIFERS. 



Your Committee on Heifers, namelv, three vears old, two 



