50 HAMPSHIRE AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



We see occasionally a cow that produces 14 lbs. of butter in a Aveek, 

 but how seldom ! Now the question arises, how can we breed good 

 cows ? In all animals, as well as vegetables, like produces like. But 

 here there seems to be a great uncertainty. A good coav, perhaps the 

 most useful among domestic animals, and what every family needs, 

 seems to come by chance. If a man happens to have a good coav, it 

 is no doubt, very agreeable to take a prize ; but he has done nothing 

 to make her Avhat she is, and he is not certain of rearing another like 

 her. 



If there is a breed of cattle in' the world that can be relied on as pro- 

 ducing superior milkers, pray let us have them, that we may not be 

 disappointed and discotsraged Avhen Ave undertake to raise at consid- 

 erable expense, a good heifer from a good coav. What Ave stand A-ery 

 much in need of, in this as in other matters relating to agriculture, is 

 that most highly esteemed commodity, science. 



The Ayrshire stock have been much extolled for their milking 

 properties. The Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin Agricultural So- 

 ciety was presented with a sire of this breed nearly three years since, 

 by the Massachusetts Agricultural Societj', but Avhere is the man who 

 is rearing an individual heifer from him, Avith full confidence that she 

 will make a first rate coav ? So weak is our faith in this matter, that 

 even this animal, imported at great expense, and his dam probably 

 from some of the best milkers in Scotland, has been lightly esteemed 

 by some of the leading members of that Society ; and a few months 

 since it Avas deemed inexpedient longer to give him a support. He 

 is, hoAvever, still in their possession at Hadley, and your Committee 

 would strongly urge upon all Avho may obtain calves by him, the im- 

 portance of giving the stock a fair trial, hoping that a decided im- 

 provement in our breed of milkers may be the result. 



STATEMEKT OT MK. SPENCER CHURCH. 



My Coav is seven years old. She gave forty-five pounds of milk 

 per day during the months of May and June last, from Avhich I made 

 14 lbs. of butter weekly. Her feed Avas grass only. She calved 

 April 23, 1851, and her calf is by her side. 



STATEMENT OF REV. JOHN SANEORD. 



My CoAV is four years old ; and has had three calves. Had her 

 last calf on the 20th of last March, Avhich Aveighed at less than Aa-c 



