362 now TO make the farm pay. « 



iceiqld of milk every month for the five moiitlis of the trial, 

 and four hundred pounds over. Larger yields than this are 

 recorded. 



One of the four Ayrshires originally imported into this 

 country by the late John P. Gushing, Esquire, of Massachu- 

 setts, gave in one year three thousand eight hundred and sixty- 

 four quarts, beer measure, or about nine hundred and sixty-six 

 gallons, at ten pounds to the gallon, be'ng an average of over 

 ten and a half beer quarts per day for the whole year. And 

 the first Ayrshire cow imported by the Massachusetts Society 

 for Promoting Agriculture, in 1837, yielded milk from which 

 was made sixteen pounds of butter a week for several weeks in 

 succession, on grass feed alone. 



'J'lie cow "t/rtm Armour,''^ imported in 1838 by Mr. II. H. 

 Peters, of Massachusetts, gave in June, having calved on the 

 20th of. May, one thousand five hundred and twenty-four nnd a 

 half pounds of milk, an average of fifty and five-sixths pounds 

 per day. In July she gave one thousand six hundred and six 

 pounds, or an average of fifty-one and five-sixths pounds a day. 

 In August, one thousand four hundred and forty-one pounds, 

 an average of forty-six and a half pounds per day. In Sep- 

 tember, one thousand and forty-one pounds, or forty-seven and 

 one-third pounds per day. The total product from June Isi to 

 September 23d, a period of one hundred and fourteen days, Avas 

 five thousand six hundred and tAvelve and one-half pounds, or 

 an average of forty-nine and three-sixteenths pounds a day. 

 During the second ten days of June she gave five hundred and 

 twenty-one and one-half pounds of milk, or fifty -two pounds a 

 day. During the second ten days of September she gave four 

 hundred and sixty-two pounds, or forty-six pounds per day. 

 Her milk was set for three days in July, and six pounds and 

 three ounces of butter made from it. Iler weight, in good 



