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and carried up to the highest sources. At my request, Mr. Be- 

 ment tried her capacities for butter, and in one week in Sep- 

 tember obtained six pounds. 



6. A cow, owned by George Johnson of Lynn, of whose 

 pedigree, after much inquiry, I can learn nothing, but of whose 

 genuineness as an improved Short-Horn I have no doubt, if not 

 of full blood yet very high bred, has produced this season, from 

 12th March to 12th September, (six months,) 7100 lbs. of milk, 

 averaging 15 beer quarts of milk per day for that time. She 

 is now (November, 1841,) giving at the rate of nine quarts per 

 day. Her feed is now one bushel of mangel-wurtzel and half 

 a peck of wheat-shorts per day, with what hay she will eat. 

 The butter properties of this cow have not been ascertained, as 

 her milk is sold daily by the quart. She is a superior animal, 

 both in appearance and product. 



7. Wm. K. Townscnd, of East Haven, Connecticut, had 

 eighteen cows of the Durham Short-Horns, full-blooded or in 

 part, which were kept for supplying milk to the city of New 

 Haven. These, in milk, gave a daily average of 110 quarts, 

 besides the milk and butter used in the family. It will be at 

 once perceived how indefinite this account is, though given by 

 the intelligent committee of the New Haven Agricultural Soci- 

 ety. We are at a loss to know how many cows were in milk 

 at a time, whether all or a part only, and how much butter and 

 milk were used in the family. The family, it is said in anoth- 

 er place, was large. 



I have had the pleasure of seeing this remarkably beautiful 

 stock. Their appearance was in the highest degree favorable 

 to their character and keeping. The average return of milk, 

 as above, was 6 2-9 quarts per day, exclusive of the reserv- 

 ed quantity. 



8. I subjoin an extract of a letter from one of the most in- 

 telligent and public-spirited farmers in New England. Henry 

 Whitney, of New Haven, giving an account of his Improved 

 Short-Horn stock. Perfect reliance may be placed on it, and it 

 will be read with much interest. Mr. Whitney's personal im- 



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