316 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Red cow made, during first ten days in June, 211 pounds 

 butter; and during the first ten days in September, 15 pounds 

 and 15 ounces, and yielded, during the first ten days of June, 

 453| pounds of milk; first ten days of September, 275|^ pounds 

 milk. 



Starred cow made, during the first ten days of June, IT 

 pounds of butter, and during tlie first ten days of September, 

 12| pounds, and yielded, during the first ten days of June, 380|- 

 pounds of milk; first ten days of September, 233 pounds of 

 milk. 



Pkinceton. 



JStatemant of J. W. Sf Wni. W. Watson. 



Our dairy consists of five cows — two of them are four years 

 old, one six and one two years old ; one of them is of the Dur- 

 ham breed, two, half Ayrshire, one, half native, and one, half 

 Devon ; we raised three of them, John Brooks raised one, and 

 B. Harrington one ; two of them calved in February, the other 

 three in March, calves all raised and of good quality ; four of 

 the cows will calve in March and one in May; they were dried 

 in the fore part of winter ; turned to pasture the last week in 

 May. Two and a quarter pounds butter each day in June, and 

 one and three-fourths pounds during each day in September. 

 During the first ten days in June, 100 pounds of four meal 

 cheese were made, and in the first ten days in September, 80 

 pounds. From the time of turning the cows to pasture till 

 the 20th of September, we made 537 pounds butter and 1,133 

 pounds cheese ; twelve to fourteen in family ; keep two old 

 hogs and nine pigs, fed with little meal and few potatoes. 



Cow No. 1. Yielded, from the 1st to the 10th of June, 33f 

 pounds per day; from the 1st to the 10th of September, 26| 

 pounds. 



No. 2. Yielded, from the 1st to the 10th of June, 37f 

 pounds per day; from the 1st to the 10th of September, 26 

 pounds per day. 



No. 3. Yielded, from the 1st to the 10th of June, 36f 

 pounds per day; from the 1st to the 10th of September, 27^ 

 pounds per day. 



One of the above is a two-year-old heifer. 



