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Our ackowledgments are also due to Messrs. Chas. Nichol- 

 son of Leominster, and N. F. Ackley of Fitchburg, for the 

 Cows they exhibited, on which they declined a paemium. 

 All of which is submitted by 



A. CROCKER, Chairman. 



Wm. W. Watson's Statement. 



My red Milch Cow. six years old, half Ayrshire, half na- 

 tive, which I offer for premium, dropped her last calf on the 

 first day of June last. The calf was taken from the Cow at 

 four days old. The weight of the milk on the first seven days 

 thereafter was an average of thirty-nine pounds per day, and 

 made fifteen twelve sixteenths pounds of butter. 



On the first seven days in September the weight of her 

 milk was an average of thirty-nine pounds per day, and made 

 thirteen and a half pounds of butter. Said Cow was kept in 

 a herd of twelve and driven a mile to a good pasture, and 

 since the first of September driven the same distance to good 

 fall feed. No extra feed, all the keeping has been from said 

 pasture and said fall feed. 



September 18th, 1855. 



Shepherd F. Atherton's Statement. 



The Cow which I offer for examination is six years old, 

 supposed to be of native breed, weighs eight hundred and 

 sixty-five pounds. She dropped her last calf April twenty- 

 eight, and gave during the first seven days in June two hun- 

 daed and twelve pounds of milk, an average of thirty and 

 one-quarter pounds per day, and during the first seven days 

 in September eighty-seven and one-half pounds. 



The two years old heifer weighs eight hundred and ten 

 pounds, one-fourth Devonshire, three-fourths Native, calved 

 May ninth. During the first seven days in June she gave 

 one hundred and fifty pounds of milk, an average of twenty- 



