NOTE. Some of the societies evidently do not count the working oxen in teams. NUMBER OF ANIMALS EXHIBITED. Cheshire, Chester,. SECRETARY. Cullen B. Foote. G. C. Stone. Clinton,. Killingworth, Lebanon,. Meriden, Middlefield, Naugatuck, Newington, South Coventry, Wolcott,. C. C. Lord, S. H. Peck, H. C. Hart, J. M. Peck. N. S. Platt. C. E. Lord. S. P. Hull. W. H. Yeomans. John F. Fitts. S. B. Sherwood. R. H. Woodruff. C. P. Augur. E. P. Nichols. O. E. Pettis. L. E. Coe. P. M. Augur. S. W. S. Skilton. James Watrous, Jr. M. S. Baldwin. J. S. Kirkham. A. C. Blake. C. F. Olmsted. F. S. Peabody. B. S. Warner. M. Parker. B. A. Peck. B. S. Warner. T. S. Gold. N. P. Perkins. J. C. Dudley. Edwin A. Todd. G. A. Bowen. OFFICIAL LIST OF GRANGES IN CONNECTICUT, 1885-6. Connecticut State Grange,.. J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury,... Suffield, Granby, Hope, Lebanon, Advance, Berlin, Union, Glastonbury, South Windsor, Meriden, Manchester, Cawasa, North Haven, CONNECTICUT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZED JANUARY 19, 1882. OFFICERS. President, Wm. M. Wadsworth, Farmington. Secretary and Treasurer, J. S. Kirkham, Newington. The annual meeting was held at room 50, capitol, January 22, at 10 A. M. President W. M. Wadsworth of Farmington, called the assemblage to order and addressed the association as follows: The experience of the past year has helped to confirm the experience of the years before, that in these days of competition to prosper or even hold their own, whether by associated or private dairying, the farmers must not only be on the lookout for the best breeds of cows for their purpose; but when they have them in possession, must give them such care, feed, and attention as will make their ownership profitable. And to do this probably no one problem is of more importance to the farmers of New England to-day, than to know what is the best and most economical substitute for hay for milch cows in winter and how it should be prepared and fed. With the great and yearly increasing competition of the West with the wheat growers of the great States, these last changing from growing wheat and corn to making butter and cheese, which is put down in our markets for a freight of half a cent a pound, is it any wonder that Iowa already reports 650 butter factories, or that Minnesota reports 400,000 milch cows, and that their dairy product amounted the last year to $14,471,200 to say nothing of other States? With Canada close by on the north, where we are told by one who has had ten years' experience in an agricultural experiment station, ten different breeds of cows and as many of sheep are kept for experimental purposes; and that milk there, on pasture feed, can be produced (food cost) for three cents per gallon, butter made for twelve cents a pound, and cheese five cents a pound. He also tells what we ought to know, that the weakest point in our agriculture is the way we treat our pasture lands by skinning them for the benefit of the rest of the farm, or rather for the benefit of |