78 MILCH COWS. 



To James Poor, of Andover, for his native Cow, 10 years 



old, the 1st premium, $10 00 



To John Perkins, of Danvers, for his native Cow, 5 years 



old, the 2nd premium, 9 00 



To Lorenzo Dow, of Methuen, 3d premium, 8 00 



To Eben G. Berry, of Danvers, 4th premium, 7 00 



They recommend that mileage be paid to Charles Nelson, of 

 Georgetown, for his Devon Cow, and to Edward H. Little, of New- 

 buryport, to Wm. IL Morse, of Bradford, for his Devon Cow, and 

 to Eben G. Berry, of Danvers, for two of his Cows. 



To Plummer Weeks, of Lawrence, to Joseph F. Ingalls, of Me- 

 thuen, to John S. M. Colby, of Lawrence, and to Isaac B. Cobb, 

 of Lawrence, in the absence of other funds, the Committee would 

 offer the thanks of the Society. 



The Committee noticed a fine Cow, belonging to Samuel Law- 

 rence, of Andover, but she was not entered for a premium. 



The Committee were pleased to find in the pens a lot of Jersey 

 Cows, exhibited by George H. French, of Andover. Whatever 

 difference of opinion there may be in regard to the different breeds 

 of cattle, we trust every member of the Society and ewerj friend to 

 the advancement of agriculture will feel grateful to Mr. French and 

 other liberal individuals, who are disposed to bring among us the 

 best cattle of the most approved breeds of other countries. It gives, 

 in some good degree, to each one of us an opportunity to compare 

 the merits of the different breeds of cattle. While on the one hand 

 we would guard against neglecting our native Cows, and lavishing 

 our care upon an imported breed, which in the end may prove far 

 inferior ; yet we would deprecate the confident spirit which some 

 manifest in saying that our native Cows cannot be beat ; for this 

 spirit, if indulged, would put a check upon the improvement of our 

 Milch Cows. Let those who are disposed import and rear their 

 favorite breeds, and give the result of their experiments to the pub- 

 lic, and if they should fail to meet the importer's expectation, the 

 individual loss would, in some measure, be a public gain. 



From whence shall the farmers of Essex County obtain their cows, 

 is a question that is becoming every year a more important and 

 difficult one to settle. In former years we have been able to buy 

 two year old heifers from the droves from Maine, New Hampshire, 



