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June last, she gave, while running in a good pasture, an average 

 of sixteen quarts of milk per day. She has frequently given 

 seventeen and eighteen quarts per day, and the quality is quite 

 equal to the quantity. 



North Andover, Sept. 20, 1850. 



Eheri King^s Statement, 



The cow I offer for premium is eight years old, of native 

 breed. I bought her in the State of Maine, two years ago next 

 October. She was giving then, on grass feed, eleven quarts of 

 milk per day. She calved the April previous. After being put 

 up to hay, she gave nine quarts of milk per day, in December 

 and January ; after that she gradually gave less until April. 

 About six weeks previous to her calving, she gave six quarts 

 per day, when I began to dry her. 1 found it very difficult to 

 do so, and put her on meadow hay keeping. She calved the 

 25th of May, 1849. After her calf was killed, I often meas- 

 ured her milk, and she gave fourteen quarts per day through 

 the best of the season. In the fall she gave from nine to eleven 

 quarts per day, varying according to the feed. In December 

 and January last she gave nine quarts per day, after that time 

 she gradually gave less. In May and June she gave six quarts 

 per day. One month before she calved she was giving four 

 quarts per day. when I left off milking her. She calved 

 the 18th of August last, and gave from six to eight quarts 

 per day more than her calf would take. The calf was 

 killed when he was four weeks old ; since then her milk has 

 been weighed, and she averages thirty-six pounds per day. Her 

 keeping has been pasture feed through the warm season ; in the 

 winter, hay, with occasionally a few carrots. I have sold the 

 most of her milk, having made butter but a small part of the 

 time since I owned her. Her milk is of the first quality, and 

 makes the best of butter. 



Danvers, Sept. 15, 1850. 



John Nicholses Statement, 



I offer for premium my red cow, seven years old. Her feed 

 in winter has been English hay, a part pf |;he time Eastern 



