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teen inches depth of milk, just one-fourth, or 

 25 per cent, cream. 



June 1 6, sixteen pints of milk taken, one 

 pint each from same cows, fed the same way, 

 setting and temperature the same. This milk 

 was taken from all that the cows gave, the 

 setting was twelve hours, with three inches 

 of cream to eighteen inches depth. Set to 

 twenty-four hours, with about the same amount 

 of cream. The cows not turned out, and held 

 their increase of milk. 



June 17, sixteen pints taken, one pint from 

 each cow, from the last half of the milking of 

 each cow, mixed and set the same, tempera- 

 ture of the weather 86, of the water setting 

 58. Yield of cream, four inches to eighteen 

 inches, the cows bellowing in the hot barn for 

 cool water and liberty. The yield of milk fell 

 short one can the past twenty-four hours. 



The cream in all these trials was yellow, 

 sweet, and odorless of any taint, and was used 

 upon the table morning, noon, and night, by 

 all the family (eight persons), upon oatmeal, 

 beans, bread, sweet cakes, in tea, coffee, and in 

 several other ways, the quality uniform in all 

 the samples, and the best I have ever seen. 



June 17, four days, nine hours, after setting, 

 the milk soured, the cream became acid. Three 



