MILCH COWS. 305 



Statement of Rufus Meriani. 



The heifer which I have offered for premium is of ^the native 

 stock. She is fourteen months and five days old. She took 

 from a cow about two quarts of milk a day for the first six 

 months, and during the same time, I gave her a gill of meal 

 morning and evening ; since then she has been kept on hay and 

 grass, with half a pint of meal per day. 



Lexington, October 3, 1853. 



Statement of George M. Barrett. 



The milch heifer exhibited by me is two years and ten 

 months old, half Ayrshire and half native. She came in last 

 April ; has been kept with ten or twelve other cows in my pas- 

 tures, with rather short feed ; the latter part of the season has 

 had corn fodder at night. She gave, the fore part of the sea- 

 son, twelve and a half quarts of milk per da.y, and gives now 

 seven and a half quarts, lawful measure. 



Concord, October 4, 1853. 



Statement of Samuel Chandler, 



The Devon heifer which I offer for premium was raised by 

 me, and is twenty-three and a half months old. She is a mix- 

 ture of the celebrated Patterson stock ofDcvons, with that im- 

 ported by the Massachusetts Agricultural Society. 



Her keeping has been of the ordinary kind both in summer 

 and winter. No grain or meal of any kind. 



Lexington, October 3, 1853. 



Statement of William Spencer. 



The Devon heifer I offer for premium is near ten months old, 

 and was raised as follows : — The first week after she was 

 calved was fed on new milk twice a day, about three quarts at 

 each time, after which she was fed on skim milk night and 

 morning, adding one quart of new milk to each mess and a lit- 

 tle hot water, enough to bring the whole to the heat of new 

 milk ; this was continued until she was eight weeks old ; she 

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