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ports a native cow, owned by F. M. Bassett, Independence, N. Y., 

 which gave 57 pounds, or 26^ quarts of milk per day, and made 

 14| pounds of butter per week. September, 18V4, the same jour- 

 nal reports a three years old Jersey heifer, Mulberry, 2d, owned 

 by Mr. McKee, which made 13^ pounds of butter in one week, 

 on grass alone. In November, IStS, it reports a Jersey cow, 

 Myrtle, 2d, owned by Thomas Fitch, New London, Conn., which 

 has made 15| pounds of butter in one week. In Flint's Abstract 

 of County Agricultural Reports for 1867, Jersey cow May Day, 

 owned by I. S. Munroe, Lexington, Mass., is reported as averag- 

 ing, in June and July, 43 pounds of milk per day, which made 15 

 pounds of butter per week. Two Devon cows, reported by Z. E. 

 Jameson, in the Vermont Watchman and State Journal, one of them, 

 Helena 16th, made 15 pounds of butter in a week. Gem, owned 

 by Gov. Hyde of Connecticut, has made 15| pounds of butter a 

 week, and 2| pounds in one day. A correspondent of the Ohio 

 Farmer reports a grade Devon cow, which gave 60 pounds of milk 

 per day. The Indiana Farmer reports Thomas Hansell, Guilford, 

 as having a cow that averaged 60 pounds of milk per day in June. 

 This same cow and a heifer from her, made 15 pounds of butter 

 each in a week. Mr. Scott of Shaftsbury, Vt., is reported as 

 having a cow whose milk yielded 504 pounds of butter in a year. 

 A. A. Moore, East. Berkshire, Vt., reports in the Vermont Farmer 

 a three-fourths Durham and one-fourth Ayrshire cow, that gave 

 60 pounds of milk per day and made 16 pounds of butter per week. 

 The American Agriculturist, January, 1876, gives an account of 

 the Jersey cow Maggie Mitchell, owned by M. T. Tilden, New 

 Lebanon, N. Y. Her weight is 1020 pounds; she gave 7,500 

 pounds of milk in a year, and has given 88 pounds per day, and 

 has made at the rate of 18| pounds of butter per week. Mr. Tal- 

 cott of Rome, N. Y., reports a yield of 15 pounds of butter per 

 week from some of his Shorthorns. 



The celebrated Oaks cow was owned in Danvers, Mass. She 

 made 19^ pounds of butter in one week, and averaged more than 

 16 pounds a week for months. A Bates Shorthorn, Oxford Lass, 

 owned by J. Talcott, Rome, N. Y., is reported as giving 50 

 pounds per day ; Bates' Shorthorn Violctta as giving 60 pounds 

 per day. A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer reports the 

 Shorthorn cow Flora as giving 10,452 pounds of milk in one year ; 

 and the Shorthorn cow Rosa as giving 11,705 pounds of milk in 

 1863. Also another Shorthorn is reported as giving 58 pounds of 



