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" My third cow, Strawberry, gave by measurement 22^ quarts 

 of milk on the grass she could clip from my short pastures. — 

 Her milk was very rich and yielded a large amount of batter, 

 though I cannot say accurately how much as it (the milk) was 

 not all brought to the house and a fair proportion was used for 

 ordinary purposes in the family. Mr. Lathrop, on whose farm, 

 at Hadley, she remained four or five weeks, wrote to me on her 

 return as follows ; — ' I must speak in the highest terms of 

 Strawberry for a milker, and butter cow. As for size and shape 

 she speaks for herself She is without doubt a very superior 

 cow. She was at Hadley in October, 1840. 



" My fourth cow. Ringlet, calved about a year since, produc- 

 ing twin heifers. She was milked three or four times, giving 

 from 10 to 12 quarts each milking, when she fell sick with the 

 milk fever and was two or three weeks before she recovered. — 

 During her illness she bruised one of her teats so badly that she 

 has lost the use of it. This cow is undoubtedly the best milch 

 cow I have ; but as the calves have sucked her until within a 

 very short period, I cannot give any particulars. She is now 

 five months in calf: her twins are one year old, and she gives 

 now from three teats 8 quarts per day. You will please under- 

 stand that I measured the amount with cave, full BKEnmeasiwe , 

 purposely for my own gratification and without giving any ex- 

 tra feed for the purpose of increasing the milk. 



" My cows were fed in winter on cut straw with corn or oil 

 meal mixed — say half a peck of corn meal to 4 bushels of finely 

 cut straw and about 2 quarts oil meal added. About a bushel 

 was given to each cow once a day, and 3 pecks of turnips or 

 ruta-bagas twice a day to each, besides a little hay. This was 

 my feed Avhen they were in the greatest flow of milk. In sum- 

 mer they are out at pasture, and when it is short, corn-stalks and 

 other green feed are given to them. On our dry soil, however, 

 it is difficult for the Durhams to thrive when the summer 

 droughts commence. They suffer, too, much from the heat and 

 from the stings of flies, which almost set them crazy. They 

 stand our winters fully as well as our common cattle, and put 

 on flesh very rapidly at that season if well fed. 



