94 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



The above record shows an average yield of 38 pounds, or 

 nearly 18 quarts of rnilk a day for three months. It has always 

 been very difficult to dry this cow for a few days at a time 

 each year, and some years she could not be dried at all. Un- 

 til after she was 12 years old she could not be fed with any 

 grain — the increased pressure of milk bringing 'on inflamma- 

 tion of the bag m a few days. 



In the year 1868, being then nine years old, she calved 

 April 7. Her milk was regularly weighed from that date to 

 April 7, 1869. The result was a total yield of 13,065 pounds, 

 or more than 6| tons, or abont 17^ times her own weight of 

 milk in twelve mouths. The detailed statement is as follows : 



April 1 to April 7 " 7 20 140 



Her greatest yield was 60 pounds a day, for several days, 

 and the average was 38^ pounds, or say 17 quarts a day, for 

 the whole 365 days. 



Statement of J. D. W. French. 



Ayrshires. — I enter my Ayrshire cow, "Roxanna," 1816, 

 Ayrshire Herd-book (Dam, Rose, 743 — Sire, McDonald, 

 3d, 263), for the premium for the best Ayrshire cow, four 

 years old and upwards. Record of milk, feed, etc., will be 

 found in accompanying paper. 



I have also entered the following Ayrshire cows, which have 

 been unable to comply with the rule, as to the time of weigh- 

 ing milk, on account of their time of calving : 



