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follows. From March 29rh to September 30th, 186 days, she 

 has given 6783 lbs. of milk, equal to 271.4 quarts, averaging 

 14|- quarts per day. The largest quantity given in one day 

 was May 9tli, 51i lbs., equal to 20| quarts. She has been sick 

 a part of the season, by browsing the leaves and branches of 

 the black cherry-tree, which has occasioned some diminution 

 of her milk. 



50. Cow. Charles F. Putnam, Salem. From November 

 15, 1839, to November 13, 1840, she produced 4214 quarts of 

 milk, beer measure, being an average of 12 quarts per day 

 through the year. Mr. Putnam writes to me, " that the first 

 month this summer, (1S41,) with two quarts of meal per day, 

 she averaged eighteen quarts of milk per day. I am confident 

 that the cow will give twenty quarts per day in good fair feed. 

 She was milked till within three weeks, and could have been 

 milked to the time, of calving." 



51. Cow. Hobart Clark, Andover. Butter in a week 14 lbs. 



52. Cow. Julius Smith, Cheshire, Conn. This heifer, two 

 years old, averages IS quarts milk per day. 



53. Cows. Spencer, Guilford, Conn. These cows aver- 

 age 14 quarts daily through the season. 



54' Cows. Allen, Cheshire, Conn. Eight cows. 15 

 quarts of milk each, daily, 



55. Cow. Shelburn, Yt. Has yielded 26 quarts, beer 

 measure, in a day ; and at two milkings in 24 hours, produced 

 3 lbs. 14 oz. of butter. This cow was raised in Vermont. 

 Some persons, from her great product, call her English ; but 

 the admixture of blood is very small if any; and if any, it is 

 not known, whether Durham, or Ayrshire, or what. There is 

 nothing but her color, which indicates any ditference from our 

 best formed native stock. She has some progeny by an Ayr- 

 shire bull, which are very promising. 



56. Cow. S. Henshaw, Springfield. 17i| lbs. of butter 

 per week, and in one case, 21 lbs. of excellent biuter. In 

 4| days that is 4 days and one milking she produced 14 lbs. 

 3 oz. of butter at the rate of 22^ lbs. per week. 1 had in a 



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