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STATEMENT OF JOHN IL ROBINSON. 



Gentlemen — Herewifh I send a statement of the yield of milk 

 from six of my cows for the year beginning September 20th, 1852, 

 ending September 20th, 1«53. 



I have selected from my stock such as I intended to keep the 

 entire year; not, however, so much with reference to their milking 

 properties at any given tune within the year, as with the view of 

 ascertaining precisely the average yield per day, through the year, 

 of what may be considered good, fair milkers. 



Two of them calved in September, 1852 ; two in December, and 

 two in January, 1853 : so that it will be seen that four of them 

 have been in milk only for eight or nine months in the year. 



The whole yield has been 16,653 gals., making an average for 

 each cow per day of 7 qiiarts, 1 pint, 1 gill. The greatest average 

 of any one of the six has been 9 quarts, 1 pint, per day ; and the 

 smallest average 5 quarts, 1 pint ; all measured by the Beer 

 Measure, about the 20th day of each month, and a memorandum 

 made by myself of the product of each cow, separately. The milk 

 was delivered for the Boston market at an average price of 14 cents 

 per gal., at the barn, which would amount to $582.82, or $97.13 

 for each cow. 



The feed has been, in the winter, the best of English and salt 

 hay (half of each), with half a bushel of brewer's grains per day a 

 part of the time, or, instead of grains, half a peck of corn and oil 

 meal soaked in water twelve hours before feeding, In the summer 

 and fall, no grain, but good pasturage, with a j)lenty of green corn 

 fodder. They have received no better attention than the balance 

 of my stock, all having been fed with the same quantity and in the 

 aarae way. 



My rule is, when feeding from the barn, to have them fed and 

 milked about the same time each day : say hay three times, grain 

 twice, and water three times, the last watering at 8 o'clock in the 

 evening, which I consider very important. In winter my milch 

 cows are kept for the most of the time in the barn, often, in very 

 cold weather, for two weeks together. 



The cost of kcei)iiig, at the present high price of hay and grain, 

 may, I think, be put down at about $2.25 per week, from November 



