REPORT ON MILCH COWS. 



HERDS OF MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS, ONE AND TWO YEARS OLD. 



Your committee appointed to examine Herds of Milch Cows and 

 Heifers, one and two years old, entered for examination and pre- 

 mium at the Cattle Show and Fair of the Hampshire Agricultural 

 Society of 1887, attended to their duties faithfulh\ being but slightly 

 disturbed by the great crowds ( !) of people attendant upon the exhi- 

 bition. 



The large number of entries was quite gratifying, there being six 

 entries of herds of milch cows and sixteen of heifers. But we are 

 sorry to say that " their sweetness was wasted on the desert air," as 

 it were, so far as there being many present to be made wiser by the 

 examination of the animals on exhibition. 



The herds of milch cows were all quite worthy of merit, so much 

 so, that your committee decided to award the premiums to the ani- 

 mals rather than to their owners. 



The herd of Mr. Magill was accompanied with a written state- 

 ment showing their capabilities. We are sorry to say that such a 

 statement was lacking in the other entries. 



The Magill cows, according to the record of the Amherst Creamery, 

 made in June, nine months after calving, an average of one pound 

 one ounce per cow per day. Believing as we do, that there is a 

 fractional waste of cream in all public creameries, owing to the cream 

 adhering to the various utensils, we reason, that if the cream had 

 been churned at home, the return would have shown a slight increase 

 of butter from that reported by the creamery. We do not state this 

 as an argument against public creameries, for we are very much pre- 

 judiced in their favor, but as a matter of fact. 



Mr. Geo. W. Fitch exhibited a herd of sixteen cows, with no poor 

 ones, of whose good qualities the committee could only judge by 

 their capacious udders, their large and tortuous milk veins, and their 

 softness of touch. All of which points indicated marked ability in 

 the production of milk, the main object of Mr. Fitch. 



