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milk per day for ten days, and making butter at the rate of 14| 

 pounds per week. During the season of 18H, she gave 12,8T5 

 pounds of milk and 513 pounds of butter. A cow is reported as 

 kept by the county jailor at Servis, England, which gave in one 

 year 10,578 pounds of milk, which made 540 pounds of butter. 



In Flint's Abstract for 18V4 is the statement of the seven-eighths 

 Jersey and one-eighth Ayrshire cow Sybil, owned by Ilenry 

 Saltonstall, Peabody, Mass. Her largest yield was 60 pounds of 

 milk per day, or 28 quarts. She weighed 950 pounds. She gave 

 in one year 13,065 pounds of milk. In Flint's Abstract, 1862, is 

 a statement of the Ayrshire cow Jean Armour, imported by Mr. 

 Peters, Southboro', Mass. She weighed 961 pounds, and gave 

 for ten days in June an average of 52 pounds per day. Her 

 largest yield was 58 pounds in a day, and 14J pounds of butter 

 per week. By statement of J. R. Kendall, Middlesex county, 

 Mass., of two Ayrshire cows, Minnie 2d gave 51^ pounds per day 

 for a week ; Clover, 54| pounds per day for a week. By state- 

 ment of S. Crosby, Lowell, Mass., his grade cow gave an average 

 of 58 pounds of milk per day for thirty-one days in July, 1868. 



By statement of M. C. Graves, Springfield, Mass., as given in 

 Flint's Abstract, 18*12, of nine cows entered for premium, three of 

 them gave the second week after calving, respectively, 56, 54 and 

 53 pounds each per day. The American Agriculturist, November, 

 1873, page 407, gives an account of the imported Ayrshire cow 

 Beacon Belle, owned by Wm. Crozier, Northport, L. I. She gave 

 in Scotland 36 quarts beer measure daily, equal to 43 quarts of 

 our milk measure, or 92| pounds per day. This is a large story, 

 but it was proved before a justice in Scotland. Still larger is the 

 statement in the Agriculturist, March, 1874, of the Ayrshire cow 

 Old Creamer, owned by S. D. Ilungerford, Jefierson county, New 

 York. She weighs 1080 pounds, and has given 96 pounds, or 45 

 quarts per day, and an average of 94 pounds per day for the 

 whole month of June. This is believed to be the champion cow of 

 the world. Who will raise a cow that will beat her ? 



The census of 1840 shows the whole dairy products of this 

 country to amount to only $33,787,003, while that of 1870 shows 

 the butter product of this country was 460,000,000 pounds. This 

 was produced from 8,935,000 milch cows, an average yield of a 

 little over 50 pounds to the cow. This butter at thirty cents per 

 pound amounts to $138,000,000. The increase of milch cows 

 from 1850 to 1860 was 2,000,000, and from 1860 to 1870, during 



