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stock does not show as well as it might, as I have sold almost all my young stock all that 

 were coming two years old. I have found the Jerseys hardy, docile, and easily kept. The 

 following statement shows the milk and butter each month of the year. The milk was 

 weighed as soon as drawn from the cow. It was put in the Hyde double -channel pan. The 

 butter was weighed after working, ready for the salt. We began the season with fifty-six 

 cows. During winter and spring we sold six. &quot;We have two families of fourteen persons 

 to supply with milk. I have deducted twenty pounds a day for this: 



Lbs. Milk for one 

 Lbs. Milk. Lbs. Butter. of Butter. 



January, 18,403 899 20.4 



February, 16,914 811 20.9 



March, 23,321 1,006 23.1 



April, 28,533 1,321 21.6 



May, 36,997 1,750 21.1 



June, 31,701 1,532 20.7 



July, 27,246 1,286 21.2 



August, 27,623 1,319 20.8 % 



September, 26,280 1,272 20.6 



October, 24,695 1,245 19.8 



November, 20,356 1,029 19.7 



December, 23,114 1,200 19.5 



Total, 305,493 14,670 Av. 20.8 



Our cows were fed from January to May on corn-meal and bran, equal parts, 10 to 12 

 Ibs. per day; through the month of May we fed bran alone; June, July, and August, grass 

 only; September and October we fed sowed corn; November and December, corn and oats, 

 equal parts, with corn from the stook ; to-day we feed corn-meal and bran. The herd consists 

 of fifty cows of , |, and full blood. Ages, five two-year-olds, eight three-year-olds, others 

 up to eight years old. 



One great reason of our better success the last part of the year over the first was in 

 handling the milk. We use the Hyde double-channel pan. The first part of the year we 

 used it without water under the pan. Since that time we have run water in cold as well as 

 in warm weather, heat of room 70 deg.&quot; 



On the above estimate, that 20 Ibs. of milk deducted each day, as used by the two fami 

 lies, fully offsets the quantity given by the six cows that were sold in the early part of the 

 year, we have fifty cows which gave the very good average yield of 293.4 Ibs. of butter each 

 month during the year. The column giving the number of pounds of milk required to produce 

 one pound of butter, for each month of the year, is an interesting one. Excepting for 

 March, it will be noticed that there is comparatively little variation in the quantity from 

 month to month. 



Landseer s Fancy, a Jersey cow owned by a gentleman in Columbia, Tenn., is reported 

 by her owner as yielding 17 Ibs. 2 oz. of butter in seven days, and 71 Ibs. 2^ ozs. in thirty- 

 one days. 



Mr. Edward Burnett, of Deerfoot Farm, Southboro , Mass., gives the following account 

 of the yearly milk yield in quarts, of several of his Jerseys, commencing with the year 1875. 

 Those beginning after that year did so as heifers: 



