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should not be made. A suitable premium offered for the two 

 best cows of a stock of six^ raised by the applicant, or in the 

 town, the whole number to be kept in the same manner^ regard 

 being had to yield and keeping of the whole, and blanks to be 

 furnished, that the statements be uniform, might have the ten- 

 dency to increase the number of good cows, resulting in a ben- 

 efit to the individual and to the public. Some change in the 

 rules, and a rigid observance of them, would furnish informa- 

 tion desirable, but not now obtained. 



There is no animal more useful, or that better repays labor 

 and care, than the cow. A proper attention to breedings feed- 

 ing, and milking, will insure a productive and profitable ani- 

 mal. It is supposed, that three acres of land, valued, say at 

 seventy-five dollars per acre, will furnish fodder sufficient for 

 one cow for one year. It has been said, by a distinguished 

 member of the society, that heifers, reared by himself, cost a 

 little less than twenty-two dollars, at the age of 3 years. This 

 sum, added to two hundred and twenty-five dollars, — the value 

 of three acres of land, — gives the sum of two hundred and 

 forty-seven dollars, the required capital for the purchase and 

 support of one cow. If yielding 8 quarts of milk per day, on 

 the average, for nine months of the year, she will produce, in 

 butter, at sixteen cents per pound, say thirty-five dollars annu- 

 ally ; or, in milk, at eight and one half cents per gallon, the 

 sum of forty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents. Taking the 

 medium of these sums, the amount received would be forty dol- 

 lars and seventy-eight cents, and the account, for five years, 

 would be something like the following : — 



$469 00 



