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teat; the second week, two; afterwcard, three. The calf was sold for 

 nearly six dollars; and in the mean time, milk to the amount of ^l.'Zo. 

 Since that time I have realized for milk sold between fourteen and fif- 

 teen dollars ; making the profit of the cow thus far, the present year, 

 nearly twenty-three dollars, besides what I used in my own family, con- 

 sisting of eight persons." Dr. Woodward informed the editor of the 

 same journal that lie had a cow which, in the year 1844, gave one 

 thousand and fifty gallons of milk, which, at four cents a quart, would 

 amount to one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. He also had, on the 

 Hospital Farm, Worcester, Massachusetts, several other cows nearly as 

 good. And William Cushman, of New Braintree, in that state, savs, 

 July 14th, 1845 : " I have a cow wdiich has given, for ten davs in June, 

 from fifty-four and a half to sixty-three pounds of milk per day." She 

 was one-fourth of the Durham breed. 



Peter H. Schenck, formerly a merchant of New York, but having a 

 country residence in Dutchess county, in October, 1843, says: '• Mv 

 cow Emma was nine years old last spring ; and till the summer of 1842 

 I never kept her milk separate from that of three other cows I have. 

 Then I made the experiment for one week, during which she gave 

 eighteen quarts per day, and the milk made fifteen pounds of butter." 

 On the 21st of the following May — that is, 1843 — he renewed the ex- 

 periment, and for the three weeks ensuing she made sixty-five and a 

 half pounds of butter. On the 15th of June, that same year, the milk 

 that came from her was churned by itself, and the butter weighed three 

 pounds eight ounces. The next day her butter weighed three pounds 

 four ounces. 



In 1843, a gentleman in the neighborhood of Troy, New York, says: 

 " George Yail, Esq., of that city, was the owner of two cows only, one a 

 full-blooded Durham, seven or eight years old, and the other four years 

 old, seven-eighths Durham. He kept an accurate account of their milk 

 and butter for thirty days. The result was as follows: one hundred 

 and eight pounds of butter, besides supplying a family of five persons 

 with new milk and cream for ordinary family use, and nine quarts of 

 new milk daily for a calf The average weight of milk per day, from 

 the oldest cow, was sixty-eight pounds, and from the other, sixty pounds, 

 during the thirty days. In the same year. Judge Walbridge, of Ithaca, 

 in that state, had a cow that gave in the seven days ending June 24th, 

 three hundred and ninety-five pounds ten ounces of milk, being an 

 average of fifty-six and a half pounds per day, or twenty-eight and a 

 half quarts per day. She had made two pounds one ounce per day, 

 when two quarts of the milk were taken for family use. And the He v. 

 AYilliam Wisner, in the same neighborhood, had a cow, that in May of 

 fne same year made forty-seven pounds of butter, and supplied two 

 families with new milk daily, during the time." 



. Among the more recent statistics of the dairy, the two following are 

 selected. The first is from the Exetor Neivs-Leiter^ which says: "Mr. 

 Abraham Rowe, of Kensington, N. IL, has a cow he raised from an 

 Eastern breed, six years old, from wdiich was made, between the 20th 

 of May and the 20th of October, 1849, one hundred and fifty-six 

 pounds of butter, avera^ring over one pound a dav from pasture feed 



