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full and reliable paper whicli we have seen, and will be the means 

 of directing the attention of farmers and dairymen to the varie- 

 ties of grasses best suited to their localities and their purposes. 



JOSHUA S. HOLBERT'S STATEMENT. 



Chemung J May 5, 1856. 

 B. P. Johnson, Esq.: 



. Dear sir — In order to ascertain the quantity of milk necessary 

 to make a pound of butter, I have measured several churnings of 

 milk, and then weighed the butter, and it takes now 15 quarts of 

 milk to make one pound of butter. I think, to take the wliole 

 time of milking for the year, it will take 14 quarts. My fatlier, 

 John Holbert, thinks it will take between 13 and 14. Last fall, 

 while feeding pumpkins, about 9 quarts made a pound. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



JOSHUA S. HOLBERT. 



MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY CATTLE. 

 T. Horsfall has given an article on the management of dairy 

 cattle from 1854 to 1856, in the Royal Ag. Society's Journal, 

 England, vol. 17th, p. 260, part 1st. No. 37, which is wor- 

 thy of the attention of every dairyman. It will be seen that 

 there is a peculiar adaptation of the herbage of a country where 

 the best butter is produced. His attention has been particularly 

 directed to the production of butter, and his object has been to 

 devise food for his milch cows adapted to their maintenance and 

 improvement, and with this view he has paid attention to the 

 composition of milk. 



ANALYSIS OF 40 POUNDS OF MILK. 



Dry material, 5.20 



Pure cassein, 2.00 



Butter, 1 .25 



Sugar, 1 .75 



Phosphate of lime, ._ 09 



Chloride of potassiun and other mineral ingred'ts,. .11 



5.20 

 His attention was directed to affording an amj)le supjdy of the 

 elements (»f food suited to the maintenance and likewise to the 

 produce of the animal. By the use of ordinary farm ]>roduce 



