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The amount given to me in Gloucestershire was three hundred 

 weight, or three hundred and thirty-six pounds, to a cow ; on 

 another dairy farm, admirably managed, and where there pre 

 vailed a disposition to give the fullest information, three and a 

 half hundred weight, or three hundred and ninety-two pounds. 

 In a report on Cheshire cheese-making, it is represented at three 

 hundred weight, or three hundred and thirty-six pounds. The 

 writer says, in a few instances, five hundred weight, or five hun 

 dred and sixty pounds, are produced to a cow ; but these cases are 

 rare. The Cheshire cheese, however, is not pure new milk, as 

 some of the cream from the night s milk is abstracted for butter. 

 In the best cheese district in New England, I have known, in a 

 dairy where a good many cows were kept, the average annual 

 yield of entire new milk cheese to have been, in one case, six 

 hundred and twenty-seven pounds to a cow ; in another case, 

 six hundred and thirty-one pounds. This was extraordinary, and 

 showed excellent management. The account may be found in 

 my Report of the agriculture of Berkshire. In general the yield 

 with us. as here, does not exceed three hundred pounds to a cow. 

 The result of a small dairy farm, where twenty cows are kept, 

 as presented in a late Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,* 

 gives, as the produce of a cow, three and a half hundred weight 

 of cheese, thirty-five pounds of butter, and thirty-five pounds 

 of whey butter. Considerable amounts of butter made from the 



Farmer. &quot; There is a great difference in cows.&quot; 



/. &quot; I understand that, and do not wish to hold you to an exact statement ; but 

 please let me have your opinion of the average annual yield of cows as they 

 rise?&quot; 



F. &quot; A great deal depends on their feed.&quot; 



/. &quot; I am aware of that ; but, to be more direct, will a good cow, well fed, pro 

 duce one hundred and fifty or three hundred pounds of new milk cheese in a 

 year ? &quot; 



F. That is very difficult to answer.&quot; 



1. &quot; It may be difficult to answer. I do not expect you to be very exact ; but a 

 general opinion is all I want. What do you think ? Will it be one hundred and 

 fifty or three hundred pounds ? &quot; 



F. &quot; Some cows will produce more and some less.&quot; 



I gave up in despair ; and yet this man every year sold all his dairy produce in 

 the market by weight. The secret was, his rent was very low, and he was a 

 tenant at will. 



* Vol. vii. part 1, p. 183. 



