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James Poor's Statement, 



f 1 offer for premium my Fountain cow, of native hreed, mii& 

 vears old. She had her first calf at three years old, has had one 

 every year since, and has never dried for these six past years,- 

 i6he calved June 26th, 1852; again May 20th, 1S53. She had 

 seven days sickness that month, in which I kept no account of 

 her milk. I began to weigh her milk the Ist of last October ; 

 weighed up to the night of the 27th September, 1853. She 

 has given 8304 lbs. of milk in that period. She has made dW 

 lbs. 14 oz. of butter up to the 26th of this month, from which 

 338 (jts. have been taken, which have not been set. 

 lbs. oz. 



Her keeping, last winter, was clover and run hay, with three 

 quarts shorts per day. In summer, common pasturing, except 

 in July, when it was very (fry, I ied her on bay night and 

 morning. 



A sample of her butter may be seen in the Hall. 



North Andover, September 28, 1853. 



Moses Newell's Statement. 



The Subscriber enters for exhibition only, one starred row 

 eleven years old, a descendant of the bull Admiral, presented by 

 Admiral Coffin to the State Society. She has not been dry for 

 four years, has I)iid a calf each year in the summer, is now nearly 

 dry, and will calve in about six weeks. 



The cow with the most white is six years old — dropped her 

 last calf in February last — is from a white Durham cow and an 



