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butter was thirtjMiinc pounds. Desirous of reaching the very- 

 facts your committee are now searching for, he tested the merits 

 of twenty of his cows, by measuring, weighing and churning the 

 milk of each, separately. The results were most satisfactory. 

 He thus discovered the real value and individual character of 

 each animal for butter products. By this experiment, he learned 

 the fact which every judicious person engaged in the dairy busi- 

 ness should possess by a similar trial of his own herd : he found 

 that twenty-nine quarts of milk from cow No. 13, gave him one 

 pound and fourteen ounces of butter ; that twenty-five pounds 

 from No. 2, afforded but ten ounces ; that seventeen pounds 

 from No. 16, yielded but eight ounces ; that No. 15, with a yield 

 of sixteen pounds, gave twelve ounces, just precisely the same 

 amount of butter as that of No. 13. Thus we find that the 

 twenty-nine pounds of milk drawn from No. 13, were equal to 

 fifty-nine pounds given by the three other cows. How many 

 such unworthy animals may still be found within the limits of 

 our own society ? Each of them count one, 'tis true, and in the 

 herd, divide the honors equally with the best. The experiments 

 here quoted, offer a profitable hint to those who purchase their 

 daily supply of milk, and determine also, that the cow which 

 gives the largest quantity of milk is not always the best milch 

 cow. 



Let us now examine the records, and exhibit a few instances- 

 of those whose superior milk and product of butter, give positive 

 evidence that a clear and discriminating selection of cows should 

 be made for the dairy. We will first adduce the Sussex cow, a 

 foreign example, we know, but referred to because we think the 

 record of the past should no longer be quoted as a maximum 

 for the present, or the future. We earnestly desire that the 

 progressive age in which we live, should bear upon its record 

 some agricultural statistics which will sustain the declaration, 

 that it is indeed the age of improvement and of progress. The 

 cow to which we refer, exhibited a record, showing that in fifty- 

 one weeks and four days, six hundred and seventy-five pounds 

 of butter were made from her milk ; and continuing the trial to 

 prove the capabilities of the animal to sustain so heavy drafts 

 upon her productive qualities, we quote the entire product of 

 this cow for four consecutive years and five weeks, amounting 

 to an aggregate of two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five 



