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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Measure and Weight of her Milk for the time between the 5th 

 of August to the 21th of September. 



Daily average from August 5th to September 27th, 29^ pounds. 

 Daily average from August 5th to September 27th, 14 |£ quarts. 



This cow came from a favorite cow, and was raised by E. S. 

 Parker, on his farm in Grovelnnd. She dropped her first calf 

 December 21, 1857, at the age of two years and eight months. 

 I bought her January 12th, 1858, and between then and the 

 13th of January, 1859, she gave 2,615 quarts of milk, beer 

 measure, or 7,027 pounds, at 2 pounds and 11 ounces per quart, 

 or 9 quarts 1 pint and 1 gill per day, wine measure, or 19| 

 pounds per day for the year. In June, July, August and Sep- 

 tember her feed was nothing but common pasturing. Her feed 

 for the other eight months of the year was four quarts shorts, 



