MILCH COWS. 299 



Statement of A. S. Lewis. 



" May Queen/' a full blood Ayrshire cow, aged seven years, 

 raised at Marshfield, on the farm of the Hon. Daniel Webster, 

 calved twenty-fifth April last, average yield of milk, per week, 

 in September, one hundred and ninety-six pounds, giving one 

 pound of butter for sixteen pounds of milk, or twelve and a 

 quarter pounds of butter, per week. 



"Eugenia," a full blood Durham cow, dropped in April, 1848, 

 raised in Worcester County, calved in April last. Average 

 yield of milk, one hundred and seventy-three and a half pounds 

 per week in September, giving one pound of butter for seven- 

 teen pounds of milk, or ten and a half pounds of butter per 

 week. In 1852, her yield for nine days in June, was fifteen 

 pounds twelve ounces of butter; for nine days in September, 

 twelve pounds butter. 



"Victoria," a half Ayrshire, and half Jersey cow, age four 

 years, raised on the farm of the Hon. Daniel Webster, at 

 Marshfield ,• average yield of milk per week in September, one 

 hundred and seventy-two pounds, giving one pound of butter 

 for fourteen pounds milk, or twelve pounds five ounces butter 

 per week. 



"Rosa," a three-quarters native and one-quarter Ayrshire 

 heifer, age three years, raised on the farm of the Hon. Daniel 

 Webster, at Marshfield, calved in June last. Average yield of 

 milk per day in September, was twenty-two pounds. 



" Fanny," Ayrshire heifer, age two years two months and 

 fifteen days, calved in August last ; wishing to raise her calf, 

 have allowed it to drink all the milk. Eaised in Roxbury, 

 Mass. 



My stock of milch cows co^isists also of one full-blood im- 

 ported Jersey about calving ; one native cow, which gives as 

 great a yield of milk as the others, — she is about calving. 



" Daniel Webster," a full-blood imported Jersey bull, age 

 four years, — offered for premium. 



Feed. Common pasture, cornstalks at night, with two quarts 

 of shorts, or mixed bran for all the stock. 



FaAMiNGHAM, Octobet, 1853. 



