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 more than one hundred pounds of butter per cow annually ; 

 now he makes nearly or quite three hundred pounds of but- 

 ter per cow annually, from his improved dairy of twelve or 

 fourteen cows. He feeds, in addition to hay and pasture, 

 perhaps twelve or lifteen dollars' worth of meal, per cow, 

 yearly. He also makes a fine article of butter, and from 

 its sale realizes over one hundred dollars income yearly, 

 from each cow, besides that from the sale of surplus cattle. 

 This has been accomplished with care, but at little cash 

 expense, as he has not purchased high priced animals, but 

 graded up from a native herd, using thoroughbred males 

 from year to year. 



To show you how he has succeeded in breeding cows of 

 uniform value as butter producers, I will give you an 

 account of what four two years old heifers I purchased of 

 him last year, have done in my dairy, the past season, at 

 several trials. One of them came in the last of April and two 

 more some time in May. The one that came in in April 

 made the 12th of June, in one day, from 22:^ pounds of 

 milk, one pound and five ounces of butter. Another one, 

 June 4th, from 19 pounds of milk, made one pound and 

 fivd ounces of butter. This heifer afterwards gave several 

 pounds more milk per day, but whether the amount of but- 

 ter was correspondingly- increased, I do not know, as I did 

 not test her again until October 1st, but from other tests I 

 have made, I conclude the butter was only slightly increased. 

 The third one, June 1st, from 23 pounds of milk, made 

 one pound and five ounces of butter. 



You will see tliat the three made each the same amount 

 of butter per day, though the weight of milk varied. 



