MILCH COWS. 301 



State7nent of George M. Barrett. 



The six cows exliibited by me, as a dairy, are from three to 

 ten years old; they have been kept in my pastures, which have 

 been short, up to the present time, except two that have been 

 in better feed for two or three weeks past. Some of them 

 had one quart of rice meal a day, in the dry weather, and have 

 had corn fodder at night, the latter part of the season ; they 

 gave, at their best, one hundred and three and a half quarts 

 per day, lawful measure, an average of seventeen and a quarter 

 quarts per day ; and they gave, last week, seventy-seven and 

 a half quarts per day, an average of about thirteen quarts 

 per day, each. 



The Ayrshire cow, "Jenny Deans," exhibited by me for pre- 

 mium, is fourteen years old ; she was imported by the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Society, and kept by them at Mr. Phin- 

 ney's, several years, and about four years since they made a 

 present of her to the Middlesex County Agricultural Society, 

 and I purchased her of the society about the first of January 

 last. She came in the 10th of May last, and has been kept 

 with ten or twelve other cows in my pastures, with rather 

 short feed ; through the dry weather I gave her one quart of 

 rice meal per day, and the latter part of the season, corn fod- 

 der at night ; she gave, the fore part of the season, eighteen 

 and a half quarts of milk per day, and gives now, ten quarts, 

 lawful measure. She is said to have given, when young, and 

 kept by Mr. Phinney, twenty-seven and a half quarts per day. 



Concord, October 4, 1853. 



Statement of Elijah M. Read. 



The Alderney cow, " Europa," offered for premium by me, is 

 eight years old ; was imported from the Island of Jersey, in 1851. 

 She calved in October, about two months after she came into 

 my possession. The average quantity of milk given by her, the 

 next nine months, was nine quarts per day ; the greatest flow 

 of milk was twelve quarts per day. Her milk has not been 

 kept separate from that of my other cows, excepting for the 

 purpose of testing its properties for butter. The first trial 



