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After the first season, [ found I had much to learn in the 

 selection and treatment of cows ; my first year's results at the 

 factory (although as good as my neighbor's), were not satis- 

 factory. The price of cheese was good, but the quantity of 

 milk small, being only about twenty-eight hundred pounds per 

 cow, for six months — from May first to November first. I 

 found I was feeding too many cows for the milk I was getting, 

 consequently I sold, or turned into beef, all of my poorest milk- 

 ers, and bought new, selecting what I thought to be deep 

 milkers. But not more than half of them would fill the bill, 

 so I posted myself on the subject, by reading different works 

 on dairying, and using my own judgment as to the diversity of 

 opinions of different authors. When cheese was the object 

 sought, I selected from our best native cows, and crossed with 

 an Ayrshire bull, letting the heifers come in at two years 

 old. 



I then found that the pasture should be divided into two 

 lots, changing as often as once a week, and that cows should 

 have regular milkers, and no scolding or harsh treatment should 

 be allowed in the dairy. 



POINTS FOR GOOD DAIRY COWS. 



It is not the largest cows that always give the best results. 

 Select a cow with fine hair, soft hide, thin neck, a mild, bright, 

 full eye, small, smooth horn, a large stomach, fine leg and a 

 small tail ; and with good care I will guarantee that such will 

 fill the pail. 



YIELD OF MILK. 



A good dairy cow ought to give four thousand five hun- 

 dred pounds of milk in one hundred and eighty days, after 

 calving ; and for the next one hundred and twenty days, she 

 ought to make from sixty to eighty pounds of butter, going 

 dry not over sixty days. During my eight years in the dairy 

 business, I have raised the yield of milk per cow from two 

 thousand eight hundred to over four thousand pounds in six 

 months' milking, from May 1st to November 1st ; and I am 

 sure that I have had many cows that would reach five thousand 



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