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grade Durham, all raised by himself, and the ages of three of 

 them stated as 7, 8, and 10 years, respectively. 



The account of their product is as follows, viz. : — 



For the first three days of each month of trial, 1^948 lbs., or 

 859 quarts 1^ pint of milk, which manufactured, gave 4 lbs. 

 12 oz. of butter, and 182 lbs. of cheese. The product of the 

 manufactured milk of all the cows, for the whole time, was 42 

 lbs. of butter, and 1,559 lbs. of cheese. 



Tlie cows were turned to pasture May 4, and fed on hay 

 morning and evening, until May 11, and after had nothing but 

 pasture feed, except corn fodder the last eight days in August. 

 In winter, subsequent to December 1, 1855, they were kept on 

 corn fodder, straw, and poor hay, until the first of March, 1856, 

 and then had good hay, with two quarts of meal, made from 

 ears of corn and oats ground together, fed to each cow per day, 

 to the 11th of March. 



Mr. Robinson's reply to the interrogatory — " What is your 

 process of manufacturing in summer and in winter, specifying 

 the difference, if any, in the manner of keeping the milk and 

 cream, the frequency of manufacture, the course of management 

 in all its stages ? " is, (as was his answer to the same interroga- 

 tory under his entry in class 1, proposed alike to all the com- 

 petitors,) " In summer, we run up the milk twice a day, keep 

 our curd one day, and manufacture it into cheese. In winter, 

 we keep our milk until we get enough for a cheese, then warm 

 the milk and stir in the cream and make it into cheese, the 

 same day." 



The greatest yield of milk of either one of Mr. Robinson's 

 four cows, for the first three days of any month, was 59 quarts 

 and I pint, in June, and the largest yield of the four cows, for 

 the three first days of any month, was 206 quarts and 1 pint, in 

 July. 



The committee have thus gone through with a careful analy- 

 sis and abstract from all the statements made by the respective 

 competitors. They have endeavored to do full justice to their 

 representations in all material respects, giving them in the very 

 words, or deducing the results from the figures of the claim- 

 ants themselves. There has been a noticeable neglect, on the 

 part of some of them, to answer with explicitness, many of the 



