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importations, with many others not mentioned, are sufficient 

 to form the basis of a race of Devons in America not excelled 

 by those in any other country. 



As for their milk and butter qualities, we mention a few 

 among the many examples we find on record, that have been 

 famous for milk and butter, in addition to those already 

 referred to above. 



Mr. F. P. Holcomb, of New Castle, Del., made nineteen 

 and a half pounds of butter per week from Lady. Hon. 

 Horace Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture, formerly of 

 Robin's Nest, 111., made twenty-one pounds of butter in nine 

 days from Flora 2d (120). C. P. Holcomb, of Delaware, in 

 the summer of 1843, in twelve weeks, made from one cow 

 one hundred seventy-four and three-quarters pounds of butter, 

 or an average of fourteen pounds nine ounces per week ; 

 during one week she made nineteen pounds, and in three 

 days nine and a half pounds. James Buckingham, of Duncan 

 Falls, Ohio, in three months, in the summer of 1856, made 

 from four cows an average of forty-four and a half pounds 

 per week, besides using the cream and milk in a family of 

 seven persons. L. G. Collins, of Newark, Mo., made from 

 the dam of Red Jacket (98), sixteen and three-quarter pounds 

 of butter per week. 



Mr. Wm. Mattoon, of Springfield, has had great success in 

 raising Devons, both for milk and beef. He slaughtered his 

 bull, Springfield (342), whose dressed weight Avas one thou- 

 sand one hundred and seventy-nine pounds, after hanging sixty 

 hours; also his cow. Rose 6th (693), whose live weight in 

 full feed was one thousand two hundred and fifteen pounds, 

 and dressed weight nine hundred and eleven pounds, shrink- 

 ing less than twenty-five per cent. His bull, Duke of Hamp- 

 den (499), weighed, when sixteen months old, one thousand 

 two hundred and ten pounds, having gained in the seventy- 

 five days previous, two hundred and ten pounds, or two and 

 four-fifth pounds per day. The feed given him was hay, 

 shorts, and one quart of meal per day. At three years old he 

 weighed two thousand and thirty pounds. His herd of cows, 

 varying in age from four to seventeen years, weighed in the 

 fall of 1874, on an average, one thousand two hundred thirty- 

 three and three-fourths pounds each. 



