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increase this by improvement to 2± cons per acre, the 20 cows eat¬ 
ing and digesting it, and you have a gross return of $3,240. Thus 
it is shown that a cow eating six tons of hay, or its equivalent, a 
year, would produce 400 pounds of cheese per annum, worth $60; 
while a cow eating and digesting nine tons, would produce 1,090 
pounds of cheese, worth $163 50. But, it is said, it would be im¬ 
possible to get nine tons of hay into a cow’s stomach during the 
year; then he would advise farmers to breed up to that point. To 
do it, he would select a thorough-bred Short-Horn bull, of the Du¬ 
chess or Princess family of Bates, and use him on his best cows, 
and thus breed a good herd of milch cows. No breed of cattle 
equal these families of Short-Horns, unless it be the Holstein, in 
converting food into growth and milk; crossed on our native stock, 
and you get some making 600 pounds of cheese in a season—$90 
per cow a year, and a calf worth $20 or upwards. 
Mr. Wetherell then gave the record of Mr. Henry Saltonstall’s 
seven-eighths Jersey cow, “ Sibyl,” which showed that she had 
produced 13,065 pounds of milk in 365 days, or a little over 64- tons 
of milk, an average of 35 5-7 pounds per day. Her feed during the 
year was old upland pasture in summer, with cut corn-fodder in 
August at night, about a bushel of grain in all between grass and 
root time, and in winter, what hay she would eat clean, and a peck 
of roots a day. In July, she made 12^- pounds of butter per week. 
“Sibyl” was bred by Thomas Motley, of Jamaica Plain, Massachu¬ 
setts, probably one of the best breeders of Jersey stock in the 
country. 
In closing, Mr. Wetherell briefly alluded to what had been 
termed the “drudgery” of the farmer’s life, and repudiated the too 
often accepted theory that there was more of “drudgery ’ in farm- 
work than in that of other occupations. 
Dr. Horace P. Wakefield, Principal of the State Primary School 
at Monson, Mass., was next called upon, and gave an account of 
the management of the farm under his charge. He preferred Ayr- 
shires as the best breed of cows for butter and cheese makers, and 
gave his methods of feeding—every day in the year a feed of hay, 
wet with cold water in summer and warm in winter, and sprinkled 
with wheat-bran. He believed such feed best for dairy cows. 
Mr. 0. S. Bliss, secretary of the association, then called upon 
Gov. Hyde, of Connecticut, to give the association some account of 
