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was in August, 1851, about two weeks after she arrived in tliis 

 Yankee land, and about two months before slie calved. I found 

 by this trial that four quarts of her milk would yield a pound 

 of butter. The second trial was in February, 1852; we used 

 for the family, three pints of her milk per day, and the balance 

 in seven days yielded eight pounds of butter. One more trial 

 was had in the last of October of same year, and the result was 

 thirteen and a half pounds of butter in nine days. She had at 

 this time given milk over one year, her last calf then being 

 more than one year old. She dropped her next 'calf on the 

 17th day of May, 1853. The whole quantity of milk given by 

 her since, I am unable to state. 



The next trial of her milk for butter was made in May, about 

 two weeks after she calved ; in seven days she gave one hun- 

 dred and ten quarts of milk, from which was produced seven- 

 teen and three-quarters pounds of butter. The last trial was 

 had within the last two weeks. She gave in nine days eighty- 

 five quarts of milk, yielding sixteen and a quarter pounds of 

 butter, equal to twelve and a half pounds of butter per week. 



Her keeping through the winter, was two quarts of corn and 

 cobmcal, one quart of shorts, and good hay ; in summer, good 

 pasturing, with the addition of some grain during the drouth in 

 July and August, and while we were testing the properties of 

 her milk for butter, she had two quarts per day. Her greatest 

 flow of milk was seventeen and a quarter quarts per day, which 

 was in June last. 



Tewksbuky, October 4, 1853. 



Statement of John B. Moore. 



Six days last June, this cow gave the following quantity of 

 milk : — 



First day, twenty-nine and a half quarts ; second day, twen- 

 ty-eight and a half quarts ; third day, twenty-seven and a half 

 quarts ; fourth day, twenty-seven and a half quarts ; fifth day, 

 twenty-seven and a half quarts ; sixth day, twenty-seven and a 

 half quarts, wine measure. Feed — grass, and two quarts rice 

 meal per day. 



CoNcoKD, October 5, 1853. 



