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was cut feed, with three quarts, daily, of fine feed. The 

 average weight of milk was twenty-nine pounds per day. In 

 the month of July I turned her out to pasture, when she had 

 nothing but grass. During the first two weeks of September 

 the average weight of her milk per day, was twenty-five lbs. 

 Her milk yielded seven and one-half pounds of butter per 

 week, in June. 



Signed by ELLIOT WOOD. 



Sept. 19th, 1855. 



Abel F. Adams's Statement. 

 The three years old Heifer which I offer for your inspection, 

 calved the twenty-third of March last. The first seven days 

 in June she gave one hundred fifty-three and one quarter 

 pounds of milk, a fraction less than twenty-two pounds daily. 

 She had neither hay nor meal, and the feed was poor for the 

 season. The first seven days in September she gave one 

 hundred eighteen and one-half pounds of milk, a fraction less 

 than seventeen pounds daily. She went with my other cows 

 and had corn fodder night and morning. 



Yours, ABEL F. ADAMS. 



Ivers Phillips' Statement. 



The Heifer of mixed breed which I offer for premium was 

 bought in the Spring of 1854 among others for fatting. She 

 was a small and inferior looking animal. In the autumn of 

 the same year she was brought up for slaughter, but thinking 

 I discovered marks of a good cow, I concluded to keep her. 



She dropped her calf early in June 1855, for which the 

 butcher paid something more than six dollars at five weeks 

 old. In one week, commencing July 16th, she gave one 

 hundred fifty-eight and one-half pounds of milk, and from the 

 cream five and three-fourths pounds of butter were churned. 



She is a gentle, good milker, and her milk has held out 

 during the late drought remarkably well. 



IVERS PHILLIPS. 



Fitchburg Sept. 19th ; 1855, 



