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STATEMENT OF EDW. F. ROWELL. 



To the Committee on Milch Cows : — 

 1 enter for premium one grade Cow, aged 6 years. 

 Dropped calf June 6, 1883 ; gave 18 qts. of milk per day 

 for three months, averaged 15 qts. per day for the next 

 three months, and 9 qts. for the 3 months following. Was 

 milked regular up to 5 weeks of calving. Dropped her 

 last calf April 16, 1884 ; has averaged 16 qts. milk per 

 day up to Sept. 28, 1884. Entire quantity of milk from 

 April 20th to Sept. 23d, 1884, lias been 2417| quarts. Her 

 feed has been hay and grass. 



STATEMENT OF JOHN S. IVES. 



To the Committee on Milch Cows : — 



1 enter my grade Holstein Heifer, four years old last 

 May. She was bred between the Durham and Holstein. 

 She dropped second calf April 30th, and ten days from 

 calving she milked 21| qts. per day. The last week in 

 June she milked 147 qts. or 21 qts. per day; she is now 

 giving 16 qts. per day and is due to calve April 22. Her 

 feed in summer is inferior pasture, with thirty cows: and 

 four qts. shorts per day. 



HERD OP MILCH COWS. 



The Committee on Herd of Milch Cows, report two en- 

 tries for premium. One by Mr. W. A. Russell of North 

 Andover. 



Mr Russell exhibited a herd of 5 thorough-bred Holstein 

 cows. A herd that any Essex County farmer might well 

 be proud of. Mr. James C. Poor, Mr. Russell's foreman, 

 presented us with a very carefully prepared statement, 

 showing just what milk each cow had given by actual 

 weight ; the milk being weighed at each milking, which, in 

 our judgment, is the only correct way of testing a herd. 



