122 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



This first cow gave about thirty-eight pounds of milk a day 

 during the best of the season. The cow that I have now 

 gives forty pounds a day in the best of the season. The 

 most butter that she has ever made in one week was sixteen 

 pounds and a half a year ago next March. The first one, in 

 sixty days, made one hundred and twenty pounds and a half 

 of butter, and sixty quarts of milk were saved out. 



I bred carefully from this first cow, from a full-blooded 

 Jersey, and got a full-blooded Jersey heifer, that, when 

 twenty months old, produced nine pounds of butter in a 

 week ; but she has never proved since to be as good as her 

 mother. This Jersey bull was imported by Mr. Aldrich, and 

 these two cows were from that stock, and were both crossed 

 with the Short-horn. 



Question. Can the gentleman say how much milk the 

 family used per day ? 



Mr. Waterman. We never use less than one quart, and 

 sometimes more. I think the first cow to which I have 

 referred, that made five hundred and twenty-eight pounds in 

 eleven months, would have made six hundred and twenty 

 pounds in the year, if all her milk had been used, allowing 

 ten quarts of milk to a pound of butter. 



Question. What feed did you give ? 



Mr. Waterman. My feed was the best of the second 

 crop of hay, always cut in the month of August, and cured 

 the best that it can be cured. To the first cow I fed six 

 quarts of fine feed a day during the time she was in the 

 barn, and in the summer a little less. The second one, I 

 gave three quarts of fine feed, and two quarts of Indian 

 meal. The butter made by the first cow was very highly 

 colored, so much so, you would think it had been colored 

 artificially. The butter o£ the second cow was improved in 

 color by feeding Indian meal. 



Mr. Everett. We have heard to-day of two of the most 

 remarkable cows that I have ever known, and I never ex- 

 pected to hear such reports from any living man as we have 

 heard to-day. Now, if the Oakes cow could produce over 

 five hundred pounds of butter in a year, and if one gentle- 

 man here has had, within two or three years, a cow that 

 would produce over six hundred pounds a year, and another 

 thinks that his cow would have produced over six hundred 



