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June 13(>T, she gave one hundred and twenty quarts of milk, 

 which made fifteen pounds of butter. In the first week of July, 

 the yield of milk was one hundred and fourteen quarts, and of 

 butter, eighteen pounds. In the first week of August, she gave 

 of milk, one hundred and fifteen quarts, and of butter, sixteen 

 pounds. In the first week of September her yield of milk was 

 one hundrejl and seven quarts, and of butter, fifteen pounds. 

 In July her aggregate yield of butter was seventy-nine pounds, 

 and from the 1st of June to the 7th of October, on green food 

 without grain, her butter amounted to two hundred and ninety- 

 three and a half pounds, or an average of fifteen pounds and 

 ninety-two one-hundredths a week, for eighteen weeks and three 

 days. And this was no exception to her ordinary yield, nor 

 was there any special effort made to feed her up to her utmost 

 capacity. Pasture grass constituted her food in June and July, 

 with pasture and a little green fodder corn at night in August 

 and September. 



This cow is, pisrhaps, better than the average of animals of 

 her breed ; but the same general characteristics are to be found 

 in them all ; a rich and high quality of butter, and an abun- 

 dance of it. She was drawn from life, and the engraving gives a 

 very good idea of the form of the Jersey cow, and of her color, 

 which is usually fawn and white, sometimes shading into a bluish 

 gray, or mouse color, and darker. 



"Abraham" {Fig. 73.) of which we also give an engraving^ 

 shows the color and the form of a good Jersey bull. He is owned 

 by the city of Boston, and kept at the public institutions at Deer 

 Island, in Boston harbor. He is represented as in rather high 

 flesh, but otherwise is correctly drawn from life for this volume, 

 and a capital likeness of one of the best breeders in this country. 



For the butter dairy, the Jersey cow must hold the first place 

 iimong the well established breeds of this country. But she is 



