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43. Cow. D. Wait, Greenfield, Mass., 1830. In one fort- 

 night made 25 lbs. butter. In May 1832 she produced, in one 

 week, 15$ butter. Average daily weight of milk, 47 lbs. — 

 Measured one day 26 beer quarts. 



44. Two cows Hart, Shelburne, Mass., 1834. Be- 

 sides milk and butter used for a family of three persons, they 

 sold from these two cows, in one season, upwards of 400 lbs. 

 butter ; feed, grass only. In June, they made in one week 23 

 lbs., one week 25 lbs., one week 28 lbs. 



45. Cow. Barrett, Northampton, Mass., 1830. This 



cow milked, for one fortnight, every eight hours ; at each milk- 

 ing has yielded a pailful, holding 10 quarts — the weight of the 

 milk averaging daily 49J lbs. Her milk has yielded daily 2 

 lbs. 5 oz. butter, making 32 lbs. 6. oz. in 14 days. From one 

 milking alone, 1 lb. 6 oz. were made, which will give 4 lbs. 2 

 oz. butter in one day, from one cow ; the butter was of a supe- 

 rior quality, and brought a high price in the Northampton 

 market. 



46. A cow owned in New London, Connecticut, yielded 10 

 quarts milk per day, for 14 successive months. 



47. Cow. I. G. Tyler, Bradford. This cow, from April 

 1 to Sept. 28, produced 154^ lbs. of butter. In the second 

 week in June, she yielded 126 quarts of milk, beer measure, 

 at the rate of IS quarts per day for that time. 



48. Cow. C. C. Sewall, Danvers. From the 26th of June, 

 in 95 days she gave 3189 lbs. or 1275 quarts beer measure. — 

 The greatest quantity in one week was 116 quarts ; in one day, 

 17 quarts, 1 pint. The daily average quantity was 13 quarts. 



49. Cow. Albert Johnson, Lynn. From 27th March, 

 1840, when she calved, to 28th September, 184 days, she pro- 

 duced 6840 lbs. of milk, or 2736 beer quarts, averaging nearly 

 15 quarts per day. The largest quantity any one day was 

 52 lbs. or 201 quarts. She had good pasturage until the drought 

 in summer, and then some hay and one bag (four bushels) of 

 shorts. 



The account of this cow for part of the present year is as 



