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feeding, etc. " Nellie Bleu 2d " dropped heifer-calf December 

 22, 1874. January 1, 1875, I commenced to measure her 

 milk, and have measured it daily up to September 1, 1875. 

 During the winter she was fed on good hay, with one quart 

 corn-meal and oue quart cotton-seed meal twice a day until 

 the 20th of May, after which she had nothing but pasture feed 

 until August 1, 1875; since then, two quarts meal daily. 

 Due to calve November 6, 1875. 



Record of her Milk. 

 Gave in January, 627 quarts = 20^ quarts per day =1,348^ pounds. 



3,765f " 80,873 " 



The above record shows a yield of 15.50 quarts daily for 

 eisrht mouths. 



DAIRY PEODUCTS. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Butter. — All concede that, to make first-class goods in the 

 varied departments of manufacturing, the raw material must 

 be good, the machinery or appliances adequate, with skilled 

 labor, aud, iu additiou, a remunerative market. 



First. The dairyman knows that diiferent breeds of milch 

 cows differ iu the producing properties for butter ; and cows 

 of the same breed, likewise, differ in the quality of their milk. 

 Hence, in buying a cow exclusively for a butter dairy, the 

 milk should be examined by means of a microscope, or some 

 other reliable test. Again, the cream rises quicker on the 

 milk of some breeds of cows than on others. We should not 



