300 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of John Raynold. 



" Lady " was four years old on the 10th of June, 1853, and is 

 of Ayrshire and Durham blood. She has had three calves ; her 

 last being dropped about the first of June, since which time, till 

 about the first of September, (three months,) she has on an 

 average filled a pail measuring nine and a half quarts, (beer 

 measure,) twice full, daily, of very rich milk, making about 

 nineteen quarts, including froth. The person who has milked 

 her is not a fast milker, and therefore, the amount of froth has 

 been less than it otherwise would have been. I should judge 

 that her average strained milk for the three months named, has 

 been not less than fifteen quarts per day. Her feed has been 

 a common pasture, with one quart of meal per day, and occa- 

 sionally a feed of green corn. She is perfectly gentle, and 

 always minds her own business, a trait of character which I 

 regard as of great value in a milch cow. 



I refused $100 for her about two months since. 



"We have never made butter from her, but have sold about 

 eight quarts of her milk daily ; have used cream mostly in our 

 family, and the hogs have had their full share. 



Concord, October 5, 1853. 



Statement of Converse Smith. 



The Ayrsliire cow which I offer for premium, is seven years 

 old ; she came in about the first of April, and gave about six- 

 teen quarts of milk per day until the feed got short, when she 

 did not give quite so much. She gave twelve quarts per day 

 the first of October, after she had been milked six months ; no 

 grain or roots of any kind. 



The native cow is ten years old ; she came in in November, 

 and has been milked over ten months. The greatest quantity 

 that I milked from her was nineteen quarts in one day, or forty- 

 seven and a half pounds ; she gave the first of October about 

 nine quarts per day. Her milk is very rich. I think she is the 

 best cow I ever owned. 



WALTHiM, October 5, 1853. 



