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has been a lot — too small if it had been good — containing about 

 one and a half acres, on clayey ground, that had been mowed 

 until it would pay to mow it no longer. She has had nothing 

 through the summer but the grass feed from this pasture, till 

 within three or four weeks. I have taught her to cat shorts 

 and corn ; never had anything but hay and grass previous to my 

 buying her, not knowing how to eat grain of any kind until 

 taught by me within a month past. 



I consider this cow superior for milk, and unequaled in this 

 vicinity for butter, making it of a very yellow color, solid and 

 waxy, and usually taking not over five minutes to churn. For 

 my own gratification, I have taken a little pains to see what we 

 got from the cow through the summer, to know whether or not 

 it was going to pay, to keep a cow in a village. Through the 

 month of June she gave an average of about thirty-one pounds 

 of milk a day, by actual and careful weight — the quantity at 

 morning and night about equal. She had a calf which was three 

 weeks old on the 1st of June, that had what of her milk he 

 would take for one week, and then was taken from the cow, 

 having the most of her milk for a week or ten days more 

 skimmed, after setting till a portion of the cream had risen. 

 From the 9th of June to the 8th of July, we made twenty-five 

 and a half pounds of butter, supplying three or four neighbors 

 with a quart a day, and using liberally ourselves — -breaking up 

 pans of milk at any time for the benefit of transient customers. 

 The quantity of milk set during this time was not over six 

 quarts per day, and this during a few days at the first giving 

 but a portion of the cream, and also there is to be brought into 

 the account two or three days about the 4tli of July when the 

 milk was about all sold. The cow now gives, running in the 

 same pasture as through the summer, about eighteen pounds of 

 milk a day. During ten days, viz: from the 19th of September 

 to the 29th, ray wife made seven pounds of butter — setting no 

 milk more than two or three nights during the time, and not 

 all mornings. We have sold something like thirteen dollars 

 ivorth of milk during the months we have had the cow, made 

 over sixly pounds of butter, used all the milk we wished in 

 the family, and raised a pig from a small size to one hundred 

 and fiftj pounds on little else than sour milk. 



