Average number of cows for the year, fifteen and five-sixths head.

Average yield per cow, $94.13.

After looking over the statement as made, a person unacquainted with my manner of feeding would naturally say that in order to produce the amount of milk the cows must have been forced. But allow me to frankly answer, No. Not at any season of the year. During the season of grass I feed two quarts at each milking, equal parts in bulk of corn meal and wheat bran, and green corn when the grass is not sufficient to satisfy them without eating over the field more than half of the day. In order to keep a cow in perfect health, and get the full amount of nourishment from her feed, she must have, at least, one-third of her time, apart from her sleeping time, to chew her cud. During the months of foddering I feed three times a day, morning and evening, two quarts barley screenings and two quarts corn meal, and at noon one quart corn meal and one quart wheat bran and all the corn fodder and clover hay they want.

The water is arranged in such a way that they can get it as often as they want it during the day, and seldom falls below forty-five degrees during the winter. The stable is not freezing cold at any time during the winter, and is well ventilated.

My experience has taught me that the man who feeds corn to his cows because it is so mouldy that the hogs will not eat it, and the hay that the horses will not eat well because it is a little mouldy and colored with rain is not the kind of a man to get big returns from the dairy, but the reverse of this is what they need in order to give a big flow of milk. Feed has not been damaged in the least while being cured, and one of the most essential things

of all, in order to keep cows to a full flow of milk, is to have milkers that are capable of taking the milk from a cow in a very few minutes, and at the same time keep the cow perfectly quiet; do not force the small boys and girls to the milk stables, their hands are small and weak, and milking is not only tiresome, but really painful, and the consequence of the slow milking causes the cow to dry up, and at the end of the year, in making up the products of the dairy, they find that the amount is small, and the final conclusion is that "I guess the dairy business don't pay very well anyway."

For the year 1878, my dairy averaged $93.70 per cow, and if I had kept a complete record for the last five years, as I have in the last two years, could show figures equally as good.

INTER-STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION.

SECRETARY'S REPORT.

The Inter-state Fair Association, of Trenton, was incorporated June 20th, 1888, the authorized amount of stock being $100,000, divided into five thousand shares, at a par value of $20 each.

The first meeting of stockholders was held on June 23rd, 1888; the first annual meeting on February 23rd, 1889, and the following officers were elected:

The Association purchased a tract of land containing about 110 acres, in the township of Hamilton, near the city of Trenton, and upon the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and have erected thereon a complete and commodious series of exhibition buildings, a grand stand, a half-mile track for speed purposes, &c., and all necessary stable accommodations.

The cost of plant, up to date of this report, has been as follows:

The first fair was held on Oct. 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th, and although the preparations for it were necessarily hurried and incomplete, it was successful, both as an exhibition and from a financial standpoint.

The gross amount of Fair receipts was $26,361.61. The expenses $18,427.26, leaving a net profit of $7,934.35.

From this amount a dividend of five per cent. upon the stock issued was declared, and the balance remains in the treasury. The dates fixed for the exhibition of 1889 are September 30th, and October 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th.

It will be seen from this brief outline that the preliminary work of establishing the association has been completed.

With the advantages which we enjoy in the point of location, our magnificent equipment in the way of grounds, buildings, track and stabling, there can be no doubt of the continued success of the corporation, and that a fair can and will be maintained, which will be a credit to the State, a benefit to the agricultural and trades interest of the county and surrounding country, and a source of profit to the stockholders.

JOHN GUILD MUIRHEAD,
Rec. Secretary.

We have in our county only one Agricultural Association, the Middlesex County Board of Agriculture, with forty-five members. It has held five meetings the past year, which have usually been very well attended, and a fair degree of interest has been manifested. The president, vice-president and secretary of the State Board of Agriculture have been present at some of these meetings and addressed its members, also Mr. Bingham, of Camden. There seems to be a general feeling among our farmers that the agricultural interests of our State are being advanced by the workings of the State Board and the State Experiment