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by John Hare Powell, of Pennsylvania, produced in three days 

 eight pounds and thirteen ounces of butter, which would be at 

 the rate of 201 lbs. per week. The cow was fed with slop of 

 Indian meal, clover and orchard grass. She has yielded re- 

 peatedly by measurement, and so far as can be ascertained by 

 the bucket, twenty-six quarts within twenty-four hours. One 

 quart of her cream produced one pound five ounces and one 

 quarter of an ounce of butter. In one case two minutes, in 

 another case only three seconds, were required to convert the 

 cream into butter. 



The butter trial was certainly a short one, and it is to be re- 

 gretted that it had not been longer continued. The quantity 

 of milk was very great, though we are left at a loss whether it 

 were wine or beer measure. If it were beer measure, one fifth 

 is to be deducted to bring it to wine measure. The measure- 

 ment of milk in the bucket is always a very uncertain measure- 

 ment. This cow was a most extraordinary animal, and it were 

 to be wished that we had returns from others of Mr. Powell's 

 fine stock, and some particular information of the progeny of 

 this cow. 



2. The celebrated cow Blossom, an improved Durham short- 

 horn cow, owned by Mr. Canby, in Delaware, is stated to have 

 given in 1840, in one week, 247^ quarts of milk, or more than 

 35 quarts per day — from which were made 13| pounds well- 

 worked butter. This summer, (1841,) two months after calv- 

 ing, she gave in one week 253h quarts, or 36 quarts per day, 

 which yielded 17i lbs. of superior butter. On the 13th July, 

 fourth month after calving, the following is a record of one 

 day's milking : — Morning, 12| quarts; noon, 11| do. ; evening, 

 11 do. =35 quarts. She gave 16 quarts per day up to the 

 time of calving. The measure is understood to be wine meas- 

 ure. This is one of the largest products on record. — 

 In the first case it seems to have required 18 44-53 quarts to 

 make one pound of butter ; in the latter case, 14 48-69 quarts. 

 This is a large amount. For the difference in the two cases it 

 is not easy to account. The mode of her keeping is not stated 



