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only, with the exception of corn stalks for two weeks past. 

 Calved April 20. 



Worcester, 1849. 



Cha7'les White's Statement. 



The cow offered for premium is four years old, native breed, 

 raised in Barre ; calved June 2 1 ; the calf taken from the cow 

 when eight days old, and put out to be raised. The cow has been 

 kept in pasture, two miles distant, making four miles travel per 

 day. After the first of August, I gave her, on an average, three 

 quarts of Indian meal per day. I occasionally weighed and 

 measured her milk, in July and August, when it uniformly ex- 

 ceeded sixteen quarts per day, strained, beer measure : gener- 

 ally, about sixteen and a half to seventeen quarts per day. She 

 weighs eleven hundred and fifty-five pounds. From Sept. 10th 

 to 20th, exclusive ten days, her milk weighed three hundred 

 and ninety-five pounds ; one quart, beer measure, weighing two 

 and a half pounds. 



My other cow, offered for exhibition, weighs thirteen hundred 

 and twenty pounds : had her last calf in August, 1848 : is ex- 

 pected to calve in April next. In October and November last, 

 she gave fourteen to fifteen quarts, strained milk per day. 



William A. Wheeler's Statement. 



I offer, for exhibition only, my mouse-colored cow, seven 

 years old, weighing fourteen hundred and seventy pounds ; 

 pedigree unknown, — said to be one-half Devonshire ; calved in 

 August, 1848 ; now dry ; expected to calve in October. She 

 gave thirteen quarts of milk per day, for the first ten days in 

 June last, and was reported to have given twenty-two quarts of 

 milk per day, for five months after calving. 



My native cow, six years old, calved the middle of August 

 last ; has since averaged sixteen quarts of milk per day. 



My heifer, raised by me, supposed to be one-half Durham, 

 two years old the seventh day of June last, calved the 2 4th of 



