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no other. They were extremely beautiful animals. His best 

 cows, in the best of the season, gave fifty-four pounds of milk 

 per day. If, as is usually reckoned, a pint is a pound, this would 

 be twenty-seven quarts per day. The average yield was forty 

 pounds per day, or twenty quarts. Yet the amount of butter 

 yielded by them was one pound per day, it requiring forty 

 pounds of milk to produce one pound of butter. They were at 

 grass, and had no extra feed. This was a large proportion of 

 milk for the butter. This farmer was then (September 26th) 

 milking thirty-five cows, from which he sold, the previous week, 

 one hundred and fifty pounds of butter, not a large amount. It 

 is stated, confidently, upon authority which I personally know 

 is entitled to entire confidence, that an Ayrshire cow has given 

 eighteen Scotch pints, or nearly thirty-six English quarts, per day ; 

 and that a three-year-old heifer gave, for six weeks after calving, 

 fourteen pints, or twenty-eight quarts, per day. These were 

 extraordinary animals. 



The account given by a celebrated writer on dairy husbandry, 

 that &quot; there are thousands of the best Ayrshire cows, which, in 

 their best condition and well fed. will yield four thousand quarts 

 of milk per year, and produce three hundred and seventy-five 

 pounds of butter each, and that, in a dairy of sixty cows, every 

 one yielded her own weight, annually, of the best cheese to be 

 met with in Scotland,&quot; must, I think, have been penned some 

 evening when the northern lights, the aurora borealis, were pecu 

 liarly brilliant in a Scottish sky. I do not deny the truth of 

 these statements ; but my own observation has not confirmed 

 them. 



The statement of a farmer in Stirlingshire, of the highest emi 

 nence, given to me, was. that his Ayrshire cows, in the best of 

 the season, averaged one pound of butter per day ; that he has 

 known two Ayrshire cows to make two pounds two ounces each 

 per day ; and that with him sixteen quarts of milk produced 

 one pound of butter. 



The North Devon stock have some strong advocates as a milk 

 ing stock. The most productive cow in butter which I have 

 found was a North Devon, which, for several weeks in succes 

 sion, without extra feed, produced twenty-one pounds of butter 

 per week. The character of the owner places the fact beyond 

 a doubt. Mr. Bloomfield, the eminent tenant of Lord Leicester, 



