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doubt about their being pure blood have them entered as Graded, 

 and not put the committee in the very undesirable position of 

 doubting whether they are pure, when they are entered as such. 

 The time has come when we all find that it pays to breed from 

 pure stock, instead of trusting to chance. Our cows are steadily 

 improving, and the change has been great within the last twenty- 

 five years. Formerly a cow was called extra that would make a 

 pound of butter per day in the best of the season ; now there 

 are many that will make two, and some even three or four. We 

 are learning to care for them better, finding that it pays to feed 

 them well, give them warm quarters in Winter, and extra feed 

 at the barn in Summer, in addition to what grass they may get 

 in the pasture. 



Formerly, farmers as a rule fed very little grain ; their cows 

 were turned out in Summer to get what they could in a bush 

 pasture, and fed on coarse hay in Winter, with perhaps a very 

 little English at calving time, trying to get along with as little 

 cost as possible, and the cows seemed to take that view of it, 

 and gave them corresponding returns. But we are learning 

 that as we cannot expect a field to bear a good crop without 

 giving it plenty of plant food, neither can we expect good returns 

 from our cows without giving them nourishing food and plenty 

 of it. 



Your committee take pleasure in saying that most of the stock 

 on exhibition looked as though it had been well cared for ; there 

 were few exceptions. The danger among farmers is, not that 

 they will overfeed, but underfeed, and thereby not get the best 

 returns from their cows. 



Respectfully submitted, 



HENRY A. TURNER. 



