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ford, whose cows look as if they were hardly allowed the refuse 

 of the cribs ! The ox and horse are worked. They go from 

 home, and pride feeds them. But the cow, it may be, has man- 

 aged, on a short pasture, to give some milk and get a little flesh 

 in summer; but the "winter of her discontent" has come. 

 Who has not seen, in almost every town m the county — when 

 winter was at its height, and when the fur of the buffalo could 

 not keep out the piercing wind, as it drove the light snow far 

 through every crevice — cows turned out to go half a mile to 

 water, and left out half, perhaps the whole, day ! It may be 

 that they have not had a dry bed since they were taken from 

 the pasture or the field, or nearly one half the body is soaked 

 with urine and covered with frost. Seeking the lee of some 

 merciful stone wall, shrinking into the smallest possible space, 

 quivering in every limb, with half- glazed eyes, hair standing in 

 all directions, thus doing the best they can to keep off" the cold, 

 with bones almost protruding from the skin ! This is the ani- 

 mal which, in Holland, is thought worthy to be separated from 

 the parlors of the wealthy only by a glass door ! Men with 

 souls look on, and heed not that they are breaking God's law, 

 and doing violence to their own natures. Surely, the statute 

 against cruelty to animals ought to be enforced. 



I would point out some of the leading features of good man- 

 agement of cows, did I not hope, for the credit of the coimty, 

 that most farmers studied and practised it. Those who do not, 

 if humanity cannot compel them, I hope their own interests will. 



T. E. Payson, Chairman. 



Warren AverilVs Statement. 



I offer for your inspection my cow Flora, native breed, seven 

 years old. Said cow calved on the fifth day of September. In 

 the three past weeks she has made 22^ lbs. of butter, from what 

 milk the calf left after sucking. Average milk per day, a trifle 

 over six quarts more than the calf sucked. The said cow 

 calved, the last season, the twenty-first day of April. The ten 

 months following, her milk was kept separate for butter ; she 



