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or, at most, one hnnclred nnd forty pounds of butter per cow, 

 may be set down as the probu])le average yearly product in 

 Vermont. In New York, in 1S73, I think, it was found by 

 careful estimates the average yield was 131 pounds per cow ; 

 but allowing the average yield of butter per cow in Ver- 

 mont to be IJO pounds, and Mr. Wood's dairy will yield a 

 net income of more than ten times the average dairy of 

 Vermont. 



I will now mention a still more extreme case, of a single 

 cow, owned by Mr. WiUiani Tliorp of Underbill. I quote 

 from a letter from Mr. Thorp to W. S. Thorp of Morris- 

 town. This letter was given me at a meeting of the Board 

 of Agriculture, Manufactures and Mining, held at Jeft'er- 

 sonville, soon after it was written, and its truth vouched for 

 at the meeting. 



" Our cow calved March 22d, 1875. We commenced 

 to use her milk April 1st. There have been only two per- 

 sons in our family. We have sold 395 pounds of butter to 

 various ones for one hundred and twenty-four dollars. We 

 have appropriated to our family use sixty-six pounds, mak- 

 ing in all four hundred and sixty-one pounds as the summer 

 product. 



We led our cow, from March 23d until June 15th, 

 two quarts of corn meal per day. As soon as convenient 

 she had plenty of grass. 



During the fall months, we fed her in all five or six bushels 

 of turnips. She is one-half blood Alderney, eight years 

 old last spring, wintered on hay alone. 



In May, she made in one week, sixteen and one-half 

 pounds of butter." 



