MILCH COWS. 



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MILCH COWS. 



ESSEX. 



Statement of David Merritt, Jr. 



Grade Cows. — I present for premium my cow " Daisy." 

 She is a Native, and was four years old on the 10th of last 

 April. She dropped her second and last calf on the 3d of 

 August, and will calve again about the last of May. From the 

 20th of last May to the present time her feed has been nothing 

 but fair pasturage, except a little of the first crop of English 

 hav at night and morning. Her milk has been measured morn- 

 ing and evening since the 5th of August, and an accurate 

 account has been kept daily, which is annexed. During the 

 first ten days of September it was twice weighed and found to 

 average two pounds per quart, wine measure ; and it takes 

 nearly eleven quarts of her milk now to make one pound of 

 butter. 



Measure and Weight of her Milk for the first ten days in 



September, 1859. 



