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Jersey Belle of Scituate. As the time approached for her first calf, one of our selectmen 

 was in the barn one day, and, looking at her, exclaimed, Have you ever examined this 

 heifer ? She is all swollen under her belly, clear to her shoulder, with an enormous bag ! 



At the time of dropping her calf, we had another cow in milk, and mixed it with that 

 of the heifer. From the two we made 604 pounds of butter that year. We often remarked 

 that the heifer must be a great butter animal. The next year we kept her milk separate, 

 and found out her butter quality. &quot;When six years old her udder measured five feet one 

 inch around. In after years it was larger, measuring on the level five feet three inches. 

 Her escutcheon was eighteen inches in width. 



On March 5th, 1877, she made three pounds six ounces of butter, and in the week 

 following, twenty-one pounds five ounces, and for the year ending March 5th, 1878, 705 

 pounds of butter. Her greatest weekly yield the following year was twenty-two pounds 

 thirteen ounces. In the year 1880 she made her greatest weekly record. Her calf was 

 dropped June 7th, and from the 15th to the 21st of June inclusive, seven days, she made 

 twenty-five pounds three ounces of butter. She was giving forty-five pounds of milk daily 

 at the commencement of the test, and forty-four pounds a day at the close of the week. 

 The butter from the first four days (one churning) was fourteen pounds eight ounces, and the 

 next three days ten pounds eleven ounces. 



In the color of her butter she was as remarkable as in yield. In winter, as in summer, 

 it was of the same golden hue, so rich that the best judges found great difficulty in believing 

 it was not artificially colored, until they saw the cream.&quot; 



Another writer mentions the &quot; Howard &quot; cow, seven years old, a cross by a Jersey bull 

 and Short-Horn cow, and says : &quot; The test began April 1, 1878, when the cow ran with the 

 herd in a field, and had but moderate feed. During the month she gave 1360 pounds of 

 milk. May 1st she was put in good pasture, and was soon giving 52 to 54 pounds per 

 day. She gave 1536 pounds of milk the last seven days of the month, which made 18f 

 pounds of butter, with nothing but grass for food. The cow is a roan but shows the Jersey 

 markings about her head. Carries no flesh when in milk.&quot; 



EurotaS; etc. The Jersey cow &quot; Eurotas,&quot; also has a remarkable record of butter 

 yield, which in nine months and six days amounted to 706 Ibs. and 3 oz. This cow was fed 

 three pints of corn meal night and morning, and on very hot days was stabled during the 

 middle portion of the day. and given a good supply of green corn fodder. Before the time 

 of pasturage, in the spring, she was fed thin gruel twice a day, but received no dry grain. 

 Of course, in addition, she had all the good hay she wanted to eat. 



Mr. H. E. Alvord speaks of the Oaks cow, that made 513 Ibs. of butter in nine 

 months, as tested by the Massachusetts State Society, also the Scott cow, a native of Vermont, 

 that made 504 Ibs. of butter, ranging from 16 to 19 Ibs. per week for the first two months, 

 and of a grade cow in New Jersey that made 21 Ibs. in one week. He says: 



&quot; I have myself had several cows, five quarts of whose milk made a pound of butter; 

 one of which, on repeated trials, gave a pound of butter for every gallon of milk. Less 

 than a month ago, a friend showed me three pounds of beautiful butter, good weight, made 

 from twelve and a half quarts of milk the product of a cow for one day and there was 

 no reason to doubt the statement. Last March I lost a Jersey, in no sense a fancy or fash 

 ionable animal, from whom I repeatedly obtained over 20 Ibs. of butter a week, on discon 

 nected trials 546 Ibs. in a year. She averaged in the worst fly time a little over two 

 pounds per day.&quot; 



Hon. R. S. Houston, of Kenosha, Wis., who formerly for many years gave considerable 

 attention to cheese-making, says concerning his herd of grade Jerseys: 



&quot; My herd consists of fifty cows from two to eight years old, from half to full bloods. My 



