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If such a movement could be inaugurated in this county 

 its influence would rapidly extend to other counties until 

 it became general throughout all the New England 

 states to the benefit of every working man. whose first care 

 is to provide good and wholesome food for his family on 

 the one hand, and on the other, give the farmer an ade- 

 quate reward for his labor, repopulate the deserted farms 

 and furnish a speedy and unfailing cure for the depression 

 of agriculture. 



STATEMENT OF CHARLES J. PEABODY OF TOPSFIELD, OF 



GREATEST PRODUCT OF MILK FROM OCT. 1, 1889 



TO SEPT. 20, 1890, AWARDED FIRST PREMIUM. 



Oct 1, 1889, I had eight cows of common and grade stock, 

 then in milk from three to seven months; in November I 

 sold one nearly dry, and replaced her with a new milch cow. 

 In Feb. I added one by purchase and a he i far I raised, come 

 in during that month. No other changes have been made; 

 eight of the cows have calved within the year, the other two 

 are due to calve next month, and have been dry three months 

 past. I have averaged eight cows in milk through the year. 

 They have produced twenty-one thousand four hundred and 

 sixty quarts of milk sold and used in the family, and an 

 estimated amount of four hundred quarts fed to calves. The 

 milk is sold at the door at an average price of three and 

 one fourth cents per quart the year through. 



A total value of milk $666 66 



A total value of manure, 90 00 



Total income, 750 66 



The cows are fed after the usual method among farm- 

 ers, with English, meadow and salt hay, corn stover, meal 

 and shorts. 



