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10th, she averaged 23 quarts of milk per day, weighing 53 

 pounds. From September 1st to the 10th, she averaged 17 

 quarts per day, weighing 41 pounds. She was fed on grass 

 and corn fodder. 



Dorchester, September 27, 1853. 



Statement of Francis Guild. 



Native cow, seven years old. From the 10th to the 20th of 

 June she gave 327^ pounds of milk, which made 19 pounds of 

 butter. From the 10th to the 20th of September she gave 250 

 pounds of milk, which made 16 pounds of butter. She calved 

 March 23d ; her feed grass — not good feed — and fed some with 

 green corn in August and September ; one quart of meal and 

 one quart of shorts each day. 



Dedham, September 27, 1853. 



Statement of J. J. Dixwell. 



I send my Jersey cow for exhibition. As I keep her for 

 family use I have very little record of her yield. Her excel- 

 lence is in the quality, not the quantity, for she is not a large 

 milker. During the last week in May, and the first week in 

 June, her milk was set aside for butter with this result : — First 

 week, 76| quarts of milk, from which was made 12 pounds of 

 butter; second week, 72i- quarts of milk, from which was made 

 13|- pounds. In addition to pasturage, she was fed with two 

 quarts of shorts, one of Indian meal, and one of oil meal, each 

 day. She calved the 5th of March. Now she gives but 

 five or six quarts per day. On several trials her milk has 

 produced a pound of butter from a fraction under five and one- 

 half quarts of milk. 



"West Eosburt, September 27, 1853. 



Statement of J. W. Clark. 



Native cow, six years old. Calved May 7, 1853. For the 

 first three weeks she averaged eighteen quarts of milk per day. 

 The first week in June we used sixty-nine quarts of milk, three 

 quarts of cream, and made from the remainder eight pounds of 



