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llEPOirr OF THE SUPERVlSOllY COMMITTEE. 



The Supervisory Committee have to regret that they were 

 unable to prosecute their usual labors, to any very considerable 

 extent, during the past season. They cannot avail themselves, 

 therefore, of a personal knowledge of the actual condition of agri- 

 culture throughout the County, or of their observation of any spe- 

 cial improvements in the cultivation of crops, in the breeding and 

 management of stock, or in the structure and operation of any 

 new agricultural implements, which it might be of service to report 

 to the Society. 



Their visits have been limited to a small portion of the towns of 

 Brookline and West Roxbury, and were made in compliance with 

 the invitations of two members of the Society, who are both 

 deeply interested in its prosperity, and extensively engaged in 

 agricultural and horticultural pursuits. 



On the 29th day of June, a majority of the Committee, — to- 

 gether with several invited guests, — assembled at the farm of 

 Francis P. Denny, Esq., in Brookline. This may be called a 

 milk farm ; and the crops under cultivation had reference, mainly, 

 to the production of milk for the market. The stock consists of 

 twenty-two milch cows, several young heifers and one fine bull. 

 The mode of feeding is, principally, by soiling ; and, for this pur- 

 pose, brewers' grains are used, and, also, oats and pease, cut 

 green. Corn, potatoes and carrots are grown, and garden vege- 

 tables for domestic consumption. The stock is chiefly of grade or 

 native breed. The milk finds sale, at the farm, for twenty cents 

 per gallon. It will be recollected that this fine herd of milch 

 cows was exhibited by Mr. Denny at the last Annual Show, and 

 attracted much attention. Good judgment is apparent, both in 

 the selection and the management of this stock, and the result, as 

 might be reasonably expected, is a profitable one. 



After the most courteous and attentive treatment by Mr. 

 Denny, the compan}' were conducted to the farm of Mr. Willard 

 A. Humphrey. This is, also, a milk farm. The stock consists of 

 thirty cows. One of these, — now twenty years old, and still in 

 milk, — has been a very superior animal. From the time of drop- 

 ping her first calf, she has not failed to present another every suc- 

 ceeding year ; and she has yielded twenty quarts of milk per day, 

 when in full feed. Here were, also, a pure blood Jersey bull, 

 two years old, and a grade Durham and Jersey, of both which 



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