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The last eleven and three-fourths days of June, she yielded 

 twenty-four and a fourth pounds of butter, (we have milked her 

 three times a day through the season.) The greatest yield in 

 any one day was two jDounds and nine ounces. Greatest yield 

 of milk any one day was fifty-two pounds and ten ounces. In 

 July the yield of butter was only fifty pounds, the weather 

 being unfavorable, and feed being short. In August, com- 

 mencing on the 18th and continuing one week, she made four- 

 teen pounds and eleven ounces butter ; during thirteen days in 

 September, she yielded twenty-five and one-fourth pounds 

 butter. 



This cow had no other feed than a common pasture, until 

 the first day of August ; she was then turned into fall feed, but 

 had nothing additional given her. 



Andover, Sept. 25, 1850. 



Stephen Driver''s Statement. 



My cow " Helen," entered for premium, is six years old, and 

 of native breed. I have owned her for more than two years 

 past. Last year she was dried March 3d and calved March 

 28th. For some weeks after her calf was taken from her, and 

 before she went to pasture, she gave eighteen and a half quarts 

 of milk per day, by actual measurement, and in September fol- 

 lowing, she averaged about nine quarts per day. 



This present season she went dry four weeks, and calved 

 March 21st. The week before she went to pasture, she yielded 

 nine pounds fourteen ounces of superior butter, besides twenty- 

 nine quarts of milk sold and used in the family. Her feed was 

 good ; English hay, and six quarts of shorts per day. During 

 the summer she has run in the common pasture. She has 

 given quite as large a quantity of milk this year, as the last. 

 Yesterday she gave seven and a half quarts. 



Salem, Nov. 26, 1850. 



Josiah Crosby^s Statement. 



1 enter for premium to-day, my four year old heifer, of Dur- 

 ham and Ayrshire breed. She has had two calves. She drop- 

 ped her last, about the last of March. During the month of 



