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The Oakes Cow owned in Danvers, was a prodigy in 

 butter producing, her record standing unequalled for years, 

 down to the present records of Jerseys and Holsteins ; in 

 1816 she made 484^ lbs. of butter besides suckling a calf 

 four weeks, and having one quart of milk per day reserved 

 for family use. 



In later years the agriculture of Essex has been well 

 kept up, and its methods and productions have been con- 

 tinuously recorded in journals and the reports of its 

 agricultural society, which in fullness, excellence and 

 completeness excel those of any of our other societies. 



I append a few figures as curiosities, but from which no 

 very satisfactory deductions can be made. 

 Of sheep they had in 



By the census 

 By assessors books 



Of neat cattle in 

 By census 

 By assessors 



Of horses in 

 By census 

 By assessors 



Of swine in 

 By census 

 By assessors 



In 1845 the tonnage of Essex County was 240,000 tons; 

 for 1885 the census does not give it intelligibly, but it was 

 in 1845 equal to all the other ports of the state. 



I should be false to my sentiments of sympathy and 

 propriety on this occasion, and remiss in what would be 

 expected of me by this society if I, a man from Franklin 

 County, the northern third of the original county of Hamp- 

 shire, should in writing of, and to, men descended from 



