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and one and one-half bushels wheat and rye bran, at a 

 cost of about three-fourths of a cent per day. The milk 

 very good; seven and seven-eighths quarts^beer measure, 

 to one pound of butter. 



JABEZ FISHER'S STATEMENT. 

 H El FER. 



The milch heifer which I enter for premium, was two 

 years old the first day of May last. Her breed is 

 Durham and Native, in uncertain proportions. She 

 dropped her calf July 7th. She gave, in seven days, 

 commencing July 24th, one hundred and sixty-five and 

 one-fourth pounds of milk, averaging twenty-three and 

 sixty-three one hundredth pounds per day. She gave, 

 in the first seven days of September, one hundred and 

 sixty and one-fourth pounds of milk, averaging twenty- 

 two and eighty-nine one hundredths pounds per day. 

 She was kept in the barn all the time, and fed with hay 

 and such green fodder as the farm would furnish. 



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HEIFERS. 



The Committee on heifers had many difficulties to 

 labor under in the discharge of their duty. The great 

 number of entries, the narrow and crowded state of the 

 space allotted for the stock, together with the universal 

 excellence of specimens on show, made it very difficult 

 to decide upon the merits of the animals. And then, 

 the oft repeated remark; " she has had no extra keeping, 



