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care may be very much less than the above forty-seven dollars 

 and forty-five cents per hundred days, b} T saving all waste foods 

 suitable for a cow, and by securing pasturage seven or eight 

 months, and especially when a cow can be cared for by members 

 of the f amity, thus saving fifty-two dollars a year. Taking the 

 country as a whole, probably fifty dollars will ordinarily buy a 

 cow that will, on fair feed, average ten to twelve quarts per day 

 for the first six months after calving;. 



PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS DAIEY COWS. 



I. Jersey Cow " Eurotas," 2454 (Frontispiece), owned by A. B. 

 Darling, Ramsey's, N. J. She yielded during one week in June, 

 1879, twenty-two pounds six ounces of butter. 



II. Ayrshire cow " Old Creamer" (page 23), owned by S. D. 

 Hungerford, Adams, N. Y. Weight one thousand and eighty 

 pounds. She has yielded one hundred and two- third pounds a 

 day for three days, and ninety-four pounds a day for the month. 



III. Jersey cow " Rosalee," 1215 (page 34), owned by S. G. 

 Livermore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She has given twenty quarts of 

 milk a day. In ten days in June, 1874, she made twenty-five 

 pounds three ounces of butter. 



IV. Guernsey cow and heifer (page 51), owned by Mr. Rendle, 

 of Catel Parish, Island of Guernsey. 



V. Swiss cow " Geneva " (page 67), imported by D. G. Aldrich, 

 of Worcester, Mass. She gave from November first, 1877, to 

 December thirty-first, 1878, ten thousand nine hundred and five 

 pounds of milk, which yielded five hundred and seventy- three 

 pounds of butter. 



VI. Dutch (Holstein) cow "Crown Princess" (page 85), im- 

 ported by Gerrit S. Miller, of Peterboro', N. Y. She has yielded 

 thirty-four quarts of milk a day, and averaged twenty-three quarts 

 a day for six months. 



VII. Shorthorn dairy cow "Cold Cream 4th '' (page 101), 

 owned by H. M. Queen Victoria. She is kept at the Shaw Farm, 

 Windsor Home Park. 



VIII. Jersey cow " Abbie " (page 123), owned by Mr. Harvey 

 Newton, of Southville, Mass. She yielded from April, 1876, to 

 March, 1877, ten thousand seven hundred pounds of milk, from 

 which four hundred and eighty six pounds of butter were made. 



