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360 lbs. milk in a week, having been milked but twice a day, 

 and she averaged 51 lbs. per day for two months. We have 

 another cow which gave 48 lbs. milk per day through the 

 month of June ; and we have still another, (now quite old,) 

 which a former owner has assured me has given 28 quarts milk 

 per day. We have two heifers, with their first calves, which 

 averaged 35 and 37 lbs. milk a day through the month of June. 

 "I have tested the quantity of cream obtained from given 

 quantities of milk from the above cows, and find it to be 1^ to 

 li inch from 10 inches of milk. There are some persons who 

 deceive themselves, and doubtless others who are guilty of de- 

 ception knowing it to be such, in representing mixed blood 

 Short Horns as ' full blood,' 'pure Durham,' ' thorough bred,' 

 &c. Now it is not sufficient that an animal is called 'full 

 blood,' or guessed to be ; the breeder of this race of animals, 

 who understands himself, will require evidence of the fact, and 

 such evidence as cannot be called in question." * 



4. Of the Short-horned cow Annabella, presented to the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural Society by Admiral Coffin, E. H. Derby 

 states, " that he has a perfect recollection of weighing her milk 

 repeatedly in June, when she had no other feed than what she 

 obtained from the pasture ; the milk, morning and night, 

 weighed 48 pounds. At the same time, we weighed the milk 

 of a very fine native cow with the same keep, which gave 33 

 pounds. The greatest objection to them in my opinion is, that 

 they incline to go dry longer than our native stock." 



I cannot agree with Mr. Derby in thinking the going dry a 

 long time a constitutional feature in this stock. This circum- 

 stance depends not upon the stock but upon their treatment 

 and keep ; especially their treatment with 'their first calf. 



5. A short-horn cow, imported by F. Rotch as I understood, 

 then I believe of New Bedford, and owned by C N. Bement 

 of Albany, a farmer well and deservedly known to the agricul- 

 tural community, was one of the most beautiful and promising 

 animals of the kind that 1 have seen ; her pedigree undoubted 



* Appendix, G. 



