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tie, easy to be milked, quantity of milk large and quality good ; 

 usually kept in common pasture in summer. When eleven to 

 twelve years old, from 27th March to 25th May she produced 

 one hundred lbs. of butter of the best quality ; and in the same 

 time, one hundred and sixty quarts of her milk, not skimmed, 

 was reserved for the use of the family. During this time, her 

 feed consisted of the best of hay (excepting the last week, when 

 in pasture) with about four bushels of Indian and rye meal and 

 some boiled potatoes and slops. She was milked three times 

 daily except the last week, and in the last fourteen days pro- 

 duced 29 3-1 G lbs. of butter. 



A cow owned by David Wait, of Greenfield, produced twenty- 

 five lbs. of butter in one fortnight. The first week twelve lbs. ; 

 the second, thirteen lbs. The feed during the first week was 

 hay only ; the second week, hay with the addition of half a 

 peck of provender, (oats and corn ground together) per day. 

 This was in April. 



Daring the week ending June 2, the above cow produced 

 15f lbs. butter. The milk was weighed, and the average daily 

 weight was forty-seven lbs. per day. It was measured after be- 

 ing strained, and measured twenty-six quarts. 



Wm. Dickinson has a native cow which was put upon the 

 fall feed after the Indian harvest. The first week after the re- 

 moval of her calf, she produced fourteen lbs. of butter ; and 

 during the first eight Aveeks she produced ninety-six lbs. She 

 had grass only while the grass continued ; and hay and meal 

 after she was put in the barn. The same farmer is the owner 

 of a cow, from six quarts of whose milk a pound of butter is 

 obtained. 



I am not willing to leave this subject without, referring to a 

 beautiful example of domestic economy in the management of 

 two cows, which, as it belongs exclusively to one side of the 

 house, gives at least encouragement to believe that the race of 

 good dairy-maids is not wholly extinct. 



This example is in Shelburne ; and the mistress of the house, 

 who herself took the whole management of the cows and the 



