MILCH COWS. 207 



80 days in June she gave 1,524.] lbs., averaging 50| lbs. 

 31 " July " l,GOt)"' " 51f 



31 " August " 1,441 " 46| 



22 " Sept. " 1,041 « 4?! 



Her total product from June 1st to this date — a period of 

 114 days — is 5,612]- pounds, making an average of 49 pounds 

 and 3 ounces per day. She gave during the second ten days 

 of June, 521]- pounds of milk, being over 52 pounds per day. 

 She gave during the second ten days of September, 462 pounds 

 of milk, being over 46 pounds per day. Her greatest yield of 

 milk in any one day since June 1st, was 58 pounds ; the least 

 was 43 pounds. Her milk was set for three days in July, and 

 6 pounds and 3 ounces of butter was made from it. The cow 

 weighs this day — being in better order than at any time 

 through the summer — 976 pounds. She has been in good 

 pasture all the season, has been tied in the barn always at 

 night, and since June 12th has received daily equal to three pints 

 of corn and cob meal, and three pints of bran, and in addition, 

 for the past ten days, green cornstalks once a day. 



SouTHBOROUGH, September 23, 1862. 



Statement of William B. Hale. 



As an act of justice to a deserving and painstaking animal, 

 apparently bent on doing her whole duty, and making each 

 year's history more telling than its predecessor, I desire to 

 submit the doings of the cow owned by me the past five years, 

 and twice honored by your society's premiums. 



She dropped her calf October 26th, 1860. From November 

 1st to August 29th, 1862, when she again calved, a period of 

 22 months, she gave 15,161 pounds of the richest milk I ever 

 saw — an average of 22 pounds 11 ounces for the entire period, 

 including the four weeks she went dry. The yield by months 

 was as follows : — 



