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and sometimes pretty scanty, at thirteen quarts. As the weather 

 began to grow cold she was fed with a little provender and the 

 first of January was giving twelve quarts, milk measure. There 

 were about five months, August, September, October, November 

 and December, when the average was twelve quarts and a half. 

 I set it down at twelve quarts as I didn't wish to stretch the 

 matter. From the first of January to the twenty-seventh of April, 

 we will call it four months, she fell from twelve quarts to seven 

 quarts. She was giving seveu quarts when I turned my attention 

 to her a second time, and got some measurements and made atrial 

 of her butter. The way we knew how much she had given was, a 

 considerable portion of the milk was sold and not converted into 

 butter. The butter test was simply for trial. The average yield up 

 to the time of giving seven quarts Would be nine quarts ; she was 

 then within forty 'days of calving and would calve a month earlier 

 than the year before, so that there would be two of the remaintng 

 three months to be accounted for in full milk. I call the month 

 she was to go before calving and those two months an average of 

 eight quarts, which anybody can see is low, because two mouths 

 would be in full milk and the other would be tapering from seven . 

 down to any point that she might reach ; she should not be milked 

 so long however, if you wish to keep up the stamina of the cow. 

 Assuming those months, to make it a full thing, and thirty days 

 to a month, calling it three hundred and sixty days, I find the 

 average is ten quarts a day or 3,600 quarts. 



I was about to say that on the twenty-seventh of April I caused 

 a test to be made of her butter ; there were three pans of milk set, 

 very shallow, already on hand ; they were skimmed and the cream 

 put into an egg beater and churned. In less than three min- 

 utes there was a half teacup full »of buttermilk and a pound of 

 butter. I weighed it myself, and it weighed a trifle over a pound, 

 and on measuring the skimmed milk, there were three quarts and 

 seven gills, and as the cream was, as near as could be estimated, 

 a pint, so that there were four quarts and three gills milk measure. 

 Estimating the whole milk of the year at that rate, [and this is an 

 estimate, mind ; whether the milk would all be as rich in butter, I 

 am not. prepared to say. If the time win was giving twelve 



or thirteen quarts had been on grass, it would be a clear question, 

 but as it was on hay and not a very large flow, it is not certain, 

 but this is only an estimate J the thirty-six hundred quarts would 

 make something over eight hundred pounds of butter, which at 



