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" Although the milch cows of Great Britain and the 

 Netherlands are in general far superior to our own, I have 

 never seen an imported coav with equal merit with some of 

 our own, that have been here offered. So fully am I con- 

 vinced of this truth, as well as that our country possesses a 

 very considerable number of these fine coavs, that I am per- 

 suaded that if Great Britain or the Netherlands were to 

 send us ten cows selected, each of the best quality there to 

 be found, New England alone would furnish twenty that 

 would equal them in the quantity of milk, butter and 

 cheese they would respectively produce." 



This was not a shot at random, by those who did not 

 know what they were aiming at ; but it was said by those 

 who knew what they were saying, in a manner most delib- 

 erate, and AA'ho stood ready to maintain what they had 

 asserted. Let those who have had more experience, and 

 who possess more wisdom, than did these gentlemen, (one 

 of whom was eighty, and the other about seventy at this 

 time) come forth and declare it. I beg leave to refer also, 

 to the discussion carried on between Messrs. Pickering, of 

 Salem, and Powell, of Philadelphia, pubhshed in the New 

 England Farmer, in 1825, where the arguments on both 

 sides of this subject are fully drawn out, according to the 

 light then existing, and I think if doubts remain on the minds 

 of any, the perusal of those papers will remove them. I 

 remember to have read them since, with much instruction. 



Where can there be found an animal excelhng the Oakes 

 cow for butter making properties ? I confess I have a local 

 pride in sustaining the reputation of this animal. She was 

 first brought into notice, in the humble town in which I 

 reside. She was a small-sized, ordinary-looking cow, with 

 a small head and neck, straight back, and broad hind parts, 

 with milk vessels of best form and capacity. She was taken 

 when about two years old, by a farmer in Danvers, from a 

 drove on its way from Maine to Brighton, without any 



