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to raise enough to give her to eat. I have several heifers 

 sired by a Guernsey bull, — one that is about eighteen months 

 old : the others are about nine or ten months old. Almost 

 all of them have the color of the bull, — light yellow and 

 white ; and the cows have given them their shape. I never 

 had any fear that they would not be well-shaped. I have 

 some reason to think that I have struck a good cross. 



Dr. Wakefield. That was my point. I wanted Mr, 

 Ellsworth to tell the farmers of Massachusetts whether he 

 had pursued that experiment far enough to be satisfied that 

 he had made an improvement by that cross over what he had 

 in other grades. If he had followed that so far as to be able 

 to say he was satisfied, we should be satisfied he had been on 

 the right track. If he is not satisfied, I think we must wait 

 until he is satisfied. 



Mr. Ellsworth. I will give you the true result, if we 

 live to see the heifer come to the pail. 



Mr. Everett. How do you account for the falling-off in 

 quantity ? You say you got twenty-four or twenty-five 

 quarts a day fifteen years ago, and do not get near so much 

 now. 



Mr. Ellsworth. I have no opinion on that point. I 

 simply thought I would make another direct cross. The 

 cows that were produced by those first two crosses were 

 remarkably superior to their ancestors. I want to try that 

 over again, and give it a direct cross, and see what it will 

 do. I can't tell what will be the result. 



Question. Is the size of your animals as large as it was 

 twenty years ago ? 



Mr. Ellsworth. No, sir. I don't want to feed a large 

 animal. I want a medium animal. It used to be the fash- 

 ion, years ago, if there was a calf that weighed a hundred and 

 fifty pounds, to get all the men in the neighborhood together 

 to help weigh it. I don't want such a heavy calf. 



Question. Don't you attribute the fact that you do not 

 get so much butter to the decrease in the size of your cows ? 



Mr. Ellsworth. No, sir: I don't attribute it to that. 

 The butter is equally good, according to the amount of milk 

 they give. The milk is equally good ; but there is not much 

 of it, and, therefore, not so much butter. I shall be surprised 

 if I do not get good milkers from the cross I have made with 

 my stock and the Guernsey. 



