Report of Pennsylvania Commission. 



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No. 5.— Lucy. 



Quantity, thirteen quarts. 



Quality, a less nunil^er of pounds will 

 make a pound of butter than most of 

 mj' other cows ; think her milk extra 

 good. 



Dry Some two months. 

 2\o. 7. — Bernice. 



Quantity, when fresh, about twelve 

 quarts. 



Quality, never tried her butter produc- 

 tion.' 



Goes dry some three months, and has 

 tJie credit of being the poorest cow in 

 the herd. 

 No. *.— .JosKPHiNE 2d.— First calf. 



Quantitj'-, tirst calf, eleven quarts. 



Quality, never weighed lier milk or tried 

 lior butter production. 

 Cannot tell how long she will go dry. 

 No. 9.— Judith. 



Quantity, seventeen quarts. 



Quality, on a trial after her first calf 

 was taken away, made 2 ounces less 

 than 8 pounds of butter, done up in 

 lumps for market. 



Goes dry six or seven weeks. 



No. 6. — Lucy. — Flanders, fourth. 

 Quantity, fourteen quarts. 

 Quality, good, very. 



Dry three months. 



No. 7. — Bernice Flanders, second. 



Quantity, twelve quarts. 



Quality, good. 



Time, eight months out of twelve. 



No. 8. — Josephine 2d. — Curveline, third. 

 Quantit}'-, ten to twelve quarts. 

 Quality, rich. 



Goes to two months of her time. 

 No. 9.— Judith.— Flanders, first. 

 Quantity, eighteen quarts. 

 Quality, good. 



Well np to her time (one month or six 

 weeks. ) 



" Having been present at the examination of my herd of Short-Horns, by the State Gue- 

 non Commission, jNIaj^Sl, 1878, I certifj' this report is a correct copy of the original 

 records made on the spot, and at separate times ; neither i^arty having Ivnowledge of 

 the other's accounts. 



William M. Large." 



Chestnut Grove, 7th month, sd, 187S. 



Report of the Examination of the Stock of Eastburn Reeder, of Babbit Run 

 Stock Farm, New Hope, Bucks County, Pa. 



The commission visited the farm of Eastburn Reeder on Saturday, 

 June 1 , and examined his stock of Jersey and Guernsey breeds in pres- 

 ence of the proprietor and a number of members of the Solebury Farmers' 

 Club. Mr. Reeder's account of his herd had been drawn up and placed in 

 the hands of J. S. Williams, Esquire, secretary of the Solebury Farmers' 

 Club, some ten days before the visit of the commission, and is printed 

 herewith. 



The commission was represented by George Blight and Willis P. Haz- 

 ard, and part of the time by Captain J. C. Morris, of Susquehannna county, 

 at the request of Thomas J. Edge, secretary of the State Board. 



Mr. Reeder, not having made in his report any statements of the quality 

 of the milk, except as regards the yield in butter, has sent the commission 

 the following condensed statement of what each cow gave on May 20 : 



No. 1, Belle, 10 quarts. 



No. 2, Topsv 14 " 



No. 3, Firefiv, 12 " 



No. 4, Isabeile, 8 " 



No. 5, Marian, 14 " 



No. G, Urania, 12 " 



Yield of the herd. May 20, . . 94 quarts. 

 Yield of the herd in seven 



days, 658 " 



No. 7, Florentia, 10 quarts. 



No. 8, Paunacussing, 8 " 



No. 9, Lady Delaware, .... 6 " 



Total for nine cows, . 



94 



Butter in seven days, 67 pounds. 



Quantity of milk to one pound 

 of butter, 9|5 qts. 



This statement of the number of quarts required to make a pound of 

 butter from Jersey and Guernsey stock, it will be seen, carries out the con- 

 clusions of the commission, who estimated the quality of this herd, as 



