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former publication marked this cow as a cross from a Dur- 

 ham bull ; but I was misinformed. Mr. H. tells me she was 

 a native cow without mixture of foreign blood. 



57. Cow. West Springfield. This cow in sixty days pro- 

 duced 2692| lbs. of milk, averaging 44 5-6 lbs. per day. This 

 was equal to 22| quarts per day for that time. She repeatedly 

 produced over 50 lbs. and sometimes 54 lbs. of milk per day. 

 I have the exact daily returns for the time. 



58. Cow. O. Morris, Springfield. '' The summer after she 

 was seven years old, the quantity of butter made from her be- 

 tween the first day of April and the first of September, five 

 months, was 206 lbs. During the time, we used milk and 

 cream in the family freely. Some weeks we have made 14 

 lbs., exclusive of milk and cream used for family purposes. I 

 have often weighed her milk in the month of June, and she 

 has frequently yielded 31 lbs. at one milking at night. We 

 have been particular to have her milked in the summer at five 

 o'clock in the morning and at seven o'clock in the evening, and 

 always by the same person. I think much of regularity in the 

 times of milking; and that one person only should be permit- 

 ted to milk the same cow the same season. My cow has al- 

 ways had a good milker, and her milk has been rapidly drawn. 

 Her food in the winter is good hay, and in addition thereto 

 from 2 to 4 quarts of rye bran at noon. I feed and give her 

 water three times each day. In the summer, besides the pas- 

 ture, she has 4 quarts of rye bran at night. From the experi- 

 ence I have had with this cow, I feel quite sure that many cows 

 which have been considered as quite ordinary, might, by kind 

 and regular treatment, good and regula)^ feed'w]^ and proper care 

 in milking, have ranked among the first-rate." 



59. Cow. Roxbury. This cow, besides taking care of her 

 calf, produced 3975 beer quarts of milk in one year or before 

 her next calving, which was within the year. 



60. Cows. J. P. Cushing, Watertown. " There has been 

 no account kept of any of our native cows. Several of them, 

 however, on grass, and also in the winter (soon after calving) 

 have given 20 quarts a day for a month or more. Several of 



