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vored with a home market, and he should make it his great business 

 to produce as much as possible of all those necessaries of life, which 

 at certain seasons of the year will not bear long transportation, and 

 when he may be sure of a ready market. Be sure to feed roell what 

 stock you keep. " Give and it shall be given to you," is a maxim 

 that applies as well to stock-raising, as to morals or religion. He 

 who practices it will find his reward, not only in a more profitable 

 ^eturn for his labor, but in the thought that in this way he imitates in 

 his humble sphere, the benevolence of the Creator, who clothes the 

 lilly, feeds the raven and satisfies the desire of every living thing. 



COW AND CALF. 



WILLIAM A. STEARNS' STATEMENT. 



My cow Juno, I suppose, to be about thirds Durham. She is an excel- 

 lent milker, both as to the quantity and quality. Iler mother, still thriving, is 

 considered the besf^cow in Cambridge. Two years ago last May and June 

 for nineteen days in succession, she gave on an average, twenty quarta a day, 

 measured milk, without the froth, in old milk measure, and nearly as much 

 a day for a good while after. It was difScult to dry her up. She is now 

 farrov/, has given milk eigliteen months, and still gives ten quarts a day. 

 Thus much of the mother of Juno. Her grandmother sometimes gave twenty- 

 two quarts a day, in the height of feed, as the mother also did occasionally. 

 My cow, though uncommonly good, has never equalled either of them. She 

 has distinguished herself above her progenitors by the very large size of her 

 calves. 



The calf which I present herewith, was dropped on the 20th of August, 

 and, accordingly, will^be seven weeks old on the first day of the Fait. He 

 was taken off from the cow about the third day, and has been fed chiefly on 

 skim milk ever since. He now eats some grass, and sometimes takes a little 

 meal with his milk. He was sired by Mr. Sweetser's full blood Ayershire- 



MILCH CO^VVS. 



R. B. HUBBARD'S STATEMENT. 



My cow is seven years old, — is half native blood, one fourth Ayershire and 

 one fourth Durham. I raised her from a calf. Her Ayershire blood she de" 

 rives from an Ayershire bull kept by the H. F. & H. Agricultural Society. 

 She has never been kept high and has eaten but very little meal. She had 



