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shall add others, and hope to be pardoned for the repetition on 

 account of the importance of presenting this whole subject in 

 a connected view. 



I shall refer in the first place, to the celebrated Cramp cow, 

 owned in Lewes, England, because as yet she bears the palm 

 of all others ; and because I wish to direct particular attention 

 to the extraordinary care with which she was kept. She was 

 not of the Improved Durham Short-Horns. She was bred in 

 Sussex from a Sussex-bred cow ; and it would seem as though 

 she had some aristocratic blood in her veins, as it is said her 

 great great grandsire received a prize cup at Petersham, in 1726, 

 though 1 think this must be an error for a much later pe- 

 riod, as she was calved in 1799. 



From the first day of May, 1805, the day she calved, to the 

 second day of April, 1806, a space of forty-eight weeks and one 

 day, her milk produced 540 lbs. of butter. The largest amount 

 made in any one week, was 15 lbs. From May to June, she 

 gave 20 quarts per day. From 20th June, to 10th September, 

 18| quarts. In forty-seven weeks, she produced 4,921 quarts 

 of milk. 



In the next year, from 19lh day of April, 1806, the day she 

 calved, to the 27th February, 1807, forty-five weeks, she pro- 

 duced 450 lbs. of butter. The largest amount per week, was 

 12 lbs. The quantity of milk for the time was 4,137 quarts. 

 During this year, she was sick and under a farrier's care three 

 weeks after calving. She went dry seventeen days only. 



In the third year, from the 6th of April, 1807, the day she 

 calved, up to the 4th April, 1808, fifty-one weeks and four days, 

 she produced 675 lbs. of butter. The largest amount made in 

 a week, was 18 lbs. The quantity of milk given in that time, 

 was 5,782 quarts. In the fourth year, from the 22d April, 

 1808, the day she calved, to the 13th February, 1809, forty-two 

 weeks and three days, she produced 466 lbs. of butter. The 

 quantity of milk given in the time, was 4,219 quarts. In the 

 fifth year, from April 3d, 1809, to May Sth, fifty-seven weeks, 

 her produce in butter was 594 lbs. The amount of milk given 

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