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Mr. &quot;Winthrop W.Chenery of Mass., gave a record of seventeen pounds and fourteen ounces of 

 butter per week; a heifer of this cow, Texelaar 9th, gave fourteen pounds per week; Snow 

 Flake at two and a half years, ten pounds per week. Messrs. Smith & Powell have given 

 the result of tests with their breed in the Dairy Department as follows: 



&quot; Neilson, seven years old, has given 74 Ib. 12 oz. of milk in a day, 2,043 Ibs. 12 oz. in one 

 month, 8,668 Ibs. 7 oz. in five months. Jannek, seven years old, 71 Ibs. 12 oz. in one day, 

 2,008 Ibs. 3 oz. in one month, 8.202 Ibs. in five months. Aggie, six years old, has given 

 84 Ibs. 12 oz. in one day, 2,362 Ibs. 2 oz. in one month, 8,231 Ibs. 1 oz. in four months. 

 Her fifth month is not yet completed. ^Egis, six years old, 82 Ibs. 12 oz. in one day, 2,197 

 Ibs. 12 oz. in a month, 9,522 Ibs. 7 oz. in five months, and 10,648 Ibs. 3 oz. since commencing 

 her record, February 22d, to date, August 16th. Sappho, three years old, has given 64 Ibs. 

 in one day, 1,717 Ibs. 6 oz. in one month, 4,381 Ibs. 6 oz. in three months. Lady of the 

 Lake, two years old, dropped her calf on February 20th, when about twenty- two months old, 

 and gave, before she was two years old, 45 Ibs. 13 oz. in one day, and 1,284 Ibs. 9 oz. in 

 one month. She has given, in five and a half months, 6,624 Ibs. 2 oz. Imogene, two years 

 old, gave 47 Ibs. 4 oz. in one day, 1,227 Ibs. 6 oz. in one month, 4,598 Ibs. 15 oz. in four 

 months. 



As we are short of pasture, we depend mainly upon soiling them. They are turned to 

 pasture part of the day, and during the night in yards. The balance of the time they are 

 kept in the stable and fed grass, oats, and fodder-corn, each in its season. Our grain feed is 

 composed of bran and ground oats, equal parts, with about enough corn meal to supply each 

 cow half a pint per day. Of this mixture we feed our two-year-old cows 5 Ibs. per day; 

 three-year-olds, 5^ Ibs. per day, and older cows, 8 Ibs. per day. Earlier in the season we fed 

 more bran in proportion to the feed, and twenty-five per cent, more weight.&quot; 



From a report of the Elmira Farmer s Club, we obtain the following record of -Colonel 

 Hoffman s herd of Holsteins, of Horseheads, N. Y., it being the most complete of any of 

 this kind that we have been able to procure. The first seven are thoroughbreds and the last 

 four grades: 



Janeka, 



Jufrou, 



Gentle Annie, 



Holland Princess, 



Beauty, 



Belle, 



Constance, 



Peitji, 



Louise, 



Black Twin, . 



Policy, 



Average of 11 cows for one year, 

 Average of 5 cows for 4 years, . 

 4 grades, average, 

 7 thoroughbreds, average, 



Average Ibs. 



Milk, 4 years. 



10,084 



11,820 



9,070 



8,218 

 7,650 



9,775 Ibs. 

 9,369 Ibs. 

 9,491 Ibs. 

 9,906 Ibs. 



The above is interesting, inasmuch as it shows not only the amount of milk yield per 

 year, but the number of days in which each animal was in milk. He also averaged in one 

 year from six full-bred cows and four grades, 8,740 Ibs. per cow. In their native country, 

 Villeroy reports yields of this breed from 11,000 to 13,000 Ibs. per cow, and butter yield 

 from 447 to 538 per cow. The herd of G. S. Miller of Peterboro, N. Y., averaged in five 

 years 8,738 Ibs. of milk per cow, the largest yield from one cow for one year being 

 14,027 Ibs. 



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