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the most butter in any week from June 1 to Sept. 15, my cow 

 " Pet." She is nine years old, was raised by me and is three- 

 fourths Jersey. She calved in June last, and gave at time of 

 calving fourteen quarts of milk per day, on grass only. She 

 has had no grain this season, and has made one pound of but- 

 ter per day in the month of September up to the 25th, with 

 grass and one feed of corn fodder per day. While this is not 

 an extraordinary amount, I think it above the average consid- 

 ering the season of the year and the keeping. 



HERDS OF MILCH COWS. 



The Committee on Herds of Milch Cows report as follows : 



1st premium, $18.00, to J. W. Blodgett, of Saugus. 



3d premium, $10.00, to Charles J. Peabody, of Topsfield. 



Two herds only were entered for premium. The President 

 of the Society, Mr. Benjamin P. Ware, entered a herd of five 

 cows for exhibition ; having taken a premium at a previous 

 fair they were not entitled to another. The example of Mr. 

 Ware, in being at the trouble and expense of exhibiting his 

 herd, with no expectation of a premium, is deserving of men- 

 tion and worthy of more frequent imitation. 



There was the same failure by exhibitors as occurs every 

 year, to comply with the requirements of the society as to a 

 detailed statement of the keeping and yield of their cows. 

 The rule of the society requires " a correct statement of the 

 manner of keeping and yield for six months preceding the en- 

 try, or if all have not been in milk six months, then for a 

 shorter time." 



Mr. Blodgett gives the amount of milk sold, but not the 

 amount actually produced, for he says part of it " was used in 

 rearing stock," and besides, it is fair to presume that his fami- 

 ly was not altogether deprived of a portion of it ; nor is it a 

 very violent presumption to suppose that the " rearing of 

 stock" may refer to that reared in the house as well as to that 



