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clover sick or fired of the grasses generally as well as the other 

 topics here discussed if wc continue the discussion farther at 

 present. 



EXTRAORDINARY COW. 



Genl. Chandler. 



Sir — ^I here give you an account of the fat cow Grace, which 

 was viewed in March last, by a committee of the American In- 

 stitute, consisting of Gen. Tallmadge, Mr. Meig^, yourself and 

 others. 



This fine cow was bred by Mr. Lewis F. Allen, and sold when 

 a heifer to Mr. Sheafe, of Duchess county, and of him I pur- 

 chased her. Mr. Sheafe showed her when only three years old, 

 in the class of aged cows at the show of the New- York State Ag- 

 ticultural Society at Poughkeepsie in 1844, and she won the third 

 prize. 



In 1847, 1 exhibited Grace at the show of the New- York Agri- 

 cultural Society at Saratoga, and she won the first prize as the 

 best milch cow. 



In 1850, supposing she had ceased to breed, she was fed by 

 Col. J. M. Sherwood of Auburn, and was by him and me jointly 

 shown at the show of the New-York State Agricultural Society 

 at Albany, in September of that year, and won the ^'st prize as 

 the best fat cow shown. 



■ In March 1851 , she was brought to New-York city, and slaugh- 

 tered. On being killed it was found that she was with calf, and 

 six month gone. 



The live weight of this extraordinary cow was, with her calf 

 in her, 1795 pounds. The calf and its appendages weighed 60 

 ix)unds, leaving her live weight 1745 pounds. Her four quar- 

 ters weighed 1210 pounds j her fat 153 pounds j and her hide 

 101 pounds J total 1464 pounds dead weight. Her dead weight 

 was 83 lbs., and 89 hundredths for every 100 lbs, ; her shrink- 



