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having suffered from pleuro. Her milk, tested by a lactometer, 

 denoted a less than average proportion of cream ; still in quantity, 

 and keeping np its yield for a length of time, being of more than 

 ordinary capability, I decided to retain her. 



Nos. 1 and 7, which are giving respectively 8 and 10 quarts 

 per day, are in a state of fatness ; they will probably be sold in 

 June as prime fat, when their yield of milk will probably be 6 

 and 8 quarts per day each. They may be expected to fetch 20/. 

 to 23/. No. 6 is also in a state of forwardness. No. 11, which 

 suffered considerably from pleuro, is in comparatively lower 

 condition. 



During the season, from the close of October to the close of 

 January, I avoid purchasing near-calving cows, which are 

 then unusually dear, my replenishments being made with cows 

 giving a low range of milk and intended for fattening : I find 

 them more profitable than those which are quite dry. The pre- 

 sent season I had additional grounds for abstaining from buying 

 high-priced cows from the recent presence of pleuro. 



On the 2nd of March I had occasion to purchase a calving 

 cow, which was reported to have calved on the 28th of February, 

 Her weight on the 4th of March was 9 cwt. 1 cp-. I supplied 

 her with 35 lbs. of mangel, and hay ad lihitum, of which she 

 ate 22 lbs. per day. The greatest yield she attained was some- 

 what more than 13 quarts per day. On the 31st of March her 

 weight was 9 CAvt., being a loss of 28 lbs, in four weeks. Her 

 yield of milk had diminished to Hi quarts per day : a week 

 after this her milk, during six days, was kept apart, and averaged 

 10 quarts per day ; being at first rather more, at the close rather 

 less, than this. The cream produced from these 60 quarts was 

 9 pints, the butter 63 oz. The butter from each quart of cream 

 was 14 oz. The proportion of butter to milk was 63 oz. from 

 60 quarts — rather more than 1 oz, per quart. 



An equal quantity of milk from a cow (calved Oct, 8th) treated 

 with steamed food, and set apart for comparison, gave less than 

 7 pints of cream, which produced 79 oz, of butter. 



In quality and agreeableness the butter from steamed food and 

 cake was decidedly superior to that from hay and mangel. 



Mr. Stansfeld, of Chertsey, has supplied me with the following 

 interesting particulars of two Alderney cows which were treated 

 as follows : — 



Malt- 

 Eape-cake. Bean-meal. Bran. combs 



lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. 



From Dec. 1st to Jan. 15tli with swedes aiid 



meadow-hay. 

 From Jan. 15th to Feb. 17th, pulped and 



fermented swedes, meadow-hay, and ,,3 2 2 2 



From Feb. 17th to May 1st 5 ..2 2 



