ON MILCH COWS. PLOUGHING WITH SINGLE TEAMS. 79 



Sept. 28, I weighed her night's milk. It weighed IG 1-2 

 lbs. J and measured 6 quarts, 1 1-2 pints. Average weight 

 now, 28 to 30 lbs. per day. JAMES POOR. 



North Andover, Sept. 29, 1852. 



JO SI All CROSBY'S STATEMEINT. 

 I offer for premium, a cow raised upon my farm. She is 

 nine years old, and is about three quarters of Ayrshire blood. 

 She calved in June last, and was milked up to the time of calv- 

 ing, without any other feed than hay. She has had no kind 

 cf grain for the last year. During the past summer she has 

 been kept in a fair pasture, and during the severe drought v/as 

 fed with corn-stalks. We measured her milk for one week, 

 which averaged 16 1-2 quarts per day, and on the following 

 week she made 8 1-4 lbs. of butter. 



JOSIAH CROSBY. 

 North Andover, Sept. 29, 1852. 



PLOUGHING WITH SINGLE TEAMS. 



The Committee on Ploughing with Single T'eams, offer the 



following report : 



There were eleven teams entered ; but nine only appeared 

 upon the field. The land was somewhat uneven in its surface, 

 and it was more difficult to determine the comparative merits 

 of the different teams, than it would have been upon a level 

 surface. 



The Committee after making all due allowance for the dif- 

 ference in the lands, award the first premium, of seven dollars, 

 to Nathan Tapley, of Danvers, work done by Doe's plough, 

 of Concord, N. H. in thirty-six minutes, with twenty furrows. 



This plough was somewhat different in its construction, 

 from any upon the field, and had a rolling cutter attached to 

 it. The Committee, while they would be proud of the world- 

 wide fame which the ploughs of our own state have ac- 



