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Q. Proceed, Doctor ? A. The next sample of milk that I found 

 came from a cow which I marked No. 8 in the stable ; it was the 

 white cow, if the gentleman would like to refer to it ; she was a 

 part Alderney cow and gave very little milk, not quite a quart 

 about three-quarters of a quart ; she had calved in March, and was 

 therefore in good condition for milking ; the cow does not at any 

 time give much milk ; she is a cow too that is eight years old ; 

 the specific gravity of that milk by the lactometer was 85 in the 

 evening and 92 in the morning ; now from the analysis your Honor 

 will see that the evening milk, which was the lowest, was the best 

 milk of the two ; it contained six per cent, of butter, and the morn- 

 ing milk only contained four per cent, of butter, showing that the 

 high specific gravity was because the milk was pure milk ; the next 

 cow was a cow called Rider, marked No. 9 in my table ; the lacto- 

 meter marked 99 in the evening ; I would like to state in regard to 

 that white cow in the morning it was half a quart and in the even- 

 ing it was three-quarters ; I made a mistake in the reading ; one 

 was seventy-five-hundredths, that was the evening milk, and the 

 morning milk was only one pint ; the morning milk was pure 

 milk and less in quantity ; now the cow Rider, No. 9, stood 

 at 99 ; this cow gave three quarts of milk in the evening 

 she was not a stripper, either ; I would like to state here that the 

 highest amount of milk given by any of these fifteen cows was only 

 a little over three quarts and a half ; the most they ever yielded 

 Mr. Mulford said is about five quarts ; the cows referred to by my 

 brother were not there when I was first there ; cow No. 9, Rider, stood 

 at 99 ; she gave three quarts in the evening and three quarts and a 

 quarter in the morning ; she was seven years old, and came in 

 March ; she was a native cow also ; now the milk from that cow 

 gave 86.6 per cent, of water and 5.5 of butter, and was therefore, so 

 far as butter is concerned, gave less good milk than the one that 

 stood at 85 ; these cows that I have referred to so far were all 

 pasture-fed cattle ; now the next cow was fed on pasture and she 

 had a couple of pumpkins to eat besides. 



By Mr. PEENTICE Q. What is the name of the cow? A. The 

 Bob-tailed cow ; this is the only one that I found that gave a low 

 gravity among the same herd that my father found ; it stood 88.5 

 on the lactometer in the evening and 97 in the morning ; she gave 



