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Mr. Ward Parker, of Merrimack, N. H., made from five 

 Devon cows, in one year, $780, or an average of $156 per 

 cow, in addition to the milk and butter used in tlie family. 

 His cow Jessie (1052), made fifty pounds of butter in the 

 mouth of February, 1874, or twelve and a half pounds per 

 week, having calved January 18, 1874. In October, 1873, 

 he tested the milk of his Devon cows with the lactometer, 

 with the following result : — 



Jessie (1052), 25 per cent, cream. 



Nelly Bly 5th (1168), ■ 25 " 



Rose 2d (1247), ....... 24 " 



Gem 4th, 24 " 



Venus (1300) 27 " 



Jessie Fremont (1057), . . . . . .22 " . " 



From five quarts of milk taken from Venus (1300), one 

 pound of butter was made. The above-mentioned six cows 

 yielded one pound of butter for every six quarts of milk. 



The Devon cow Beauty, owned by Benjamin Blakeslee, of 

 Thomaston, Conn., at the age of seven years, averaged eleven 

 pounds of butter per week for four months, from January 1 to 

 May 1, 1868. 



Our system or plan of operations is, perhaps, difierent from 

 most of those who keep stock for dairy purposes only. We 

 have a grass, fruit and stock farm, and raise stock to sell. 

 Our stock consumes what the farm produces, and we go 

 abroad for none of the food for cattle. In keeping stock for 

 breeding purposes, we have paid particular attention to the 

 development of milk. 



In the year 1873, we had ten cows giving milk, and tAvo of 

 those were milked by calves that were being raised on them, 

 two on a cow. Not over eight cows were milked at any one 

 time' during the season for the production of butter. We 

 made one thousand five hundred pounds of butter through 

 the season, and sold it from the first of June to the first of 

 October for forty cents per pound, and from forty-five to fifty 

 cents per pound the rest of the year. Only three cows on 

 thejfarm at that time were over three years old, and seven of 

 the cows milked that year were with their first calf, two and 



