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In like manner, Indian corn may be planted in continued row^ 

 only so iar apart as to admit a small plough in its culture, and 

 with the plants only four or five inches apart in the rows. The 

 surface of the ground should be smooth in the rows, so as to ad- 

 mit of mowing the corn. 



The farmer who shall pasture some of his cows, and soil the 

 others, will add to the value of the experiment, by keeping 

 their milch separate, and noting their relative quantities from 

 cows of equal goodness, and the quantity and quality of the but' 

 ter made from each set. 



III. THE DAIRY. 



For the greatest quantity of good butter, in proportion to the 

 number of cows producing it, (not fewer than four) made on 

 any firm, from the 20th of May to the 20th of November, twen- 

 ty-six weeks, and the quantity of butter averaging not less than 

 seven pounds per week for each cow, twenty dollars. 



For the second greatest, - - - fifteen dollars. 



For the third greatest, - - - ten dollars. 



The kinds of food and the management of it to be detailed. 



REMARKS. 



The object of Agricultural institutions, as already observed, is 

 improvement : and in Essex, none seems to be more wanted than 

 in milch cows. If the society were to continue their premiums, 

 during any length of time, merely for the greatest quantity of 

 butter, they would not enforce any improvement in the quality 

 of those animals. Seven pounds of butter a week, for each cow, 

 is less than half what the Oakes cow of Danvers produced, in 

 the same time. The seven pounds a week, therefore, are very 

 attainable by every farmer who will improve his breed of cows^ 

 and feed them to the full with juicy and highly nourishing food. 

 The Committee trust they do not entertain a groundless hope, 

 that the premiums here offered will have claimants ; and that 

 in some future years, the Trustees will be justified in contining 

 these premiums to cows yielding ten, twelve, and fourteen, 

 pounds of butter a week, for twenty six weeks in the year. 



