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FACTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 



Agricultural Exhibition in New South Wales. — The A^jricul- 

 tnral Society of New South Wales proposes to hukl a Metroixtlitan 

 International Exhibition in the Exhibition Building and Prince Alfred 

 Park, Sydney, coraniencing A])ril 22, and closing- about 3d of May, 

 1873. The council having charge of this exhibition most coidially 

 solicits agriculturists and manufacturers of every class in tlie United 

 States — especially of every description of machinery and agricultural 

 implen)ents — to contribute specimens to the exhibition, with the view of 

 opening with that colony a valuable market for the sale of the various 

 manufactures of this country, which stand deservedly high in that 

 Interesting and thriving colony, to which, with the Australian and 

 adjacent colonies, it is pre<licted a large and most profitable trade will 

 soon be opened, owing to the fact that our facilities for reaching those 

 markets are much greater than those of any other country, shipments 

 being made from San Francisco direct, either by sailing-vessels or steam- 

 ships, at least oue^ in each month. Awards will be made to exhibitors, 

 solely on the merits of their articles, without regard to the country from 

 which they came. TheDei)artmenthasbeen favored by Mr. JulesJoubert, 

 secretary of the society, with schedules of prizes, which are unusually 

 liberal. 



Milk product of an Ayrshire dairy.— E. T. Miles, of Maple- 

 wood farm, Worcester county, Massachusetts, furnishes for publication 

 the following statistics relative to the entire dairy of Ajrshires he has 

 kept for the three years ended July 1, 1872: 



The largest product was by Beauty, in 1869-'70, being 8,011 i>ounds, 

 or, reckoning 8f pounds to the gallon, 915.54 gallons ; averaging for tlie 

 315 days she was in milk, 25.43 pounds, or ll.G quarts, per day. The 

 smallest product was by Myrtle 2d, (three years old,) in 1871-'2, 

 being 2.352f pounds, or'2G9 gallons; averaging, for the 114 days ?he 

 was in milk, 20,04 pounds, or very nearly 9^ quarts per day. It is 

 worthy of notice that Beauty was only 12 jjounds heavier than this 

 heifer, and that there was but one other in the lot lighter than she. In 

 1871-72 the total yield of the 11 cows was 56,104i pounds, or 6,418.9 

 gallons; average per cow, 5,105.9 pounds, or 583.5 gallons; average 

 season in milk, 273 days ; daily average for each cow, 15 pounds, or a 

 little less than G.9 quarts. 



This is at the rate of 13.97 pounds per week in June; 11.76 pounds 

 in July ; and 9.52 pounds in August. 



