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or an average of 4830 lbs. a day. By measuring her milk, I ascer- 

 tained that a quart of it weighed 2*^ lbs., which makes her average 

 yield per day, IS^^* quarts. I commenced weighing her milk again 

 on the fifteenth of September, and weighed it for one week. She 

 gave 185 lbs. — 264 lbs. per day — 11 quarts and a fraction. Her 

 feed through this time, has been common pasture, with five or six 

 other cows, and her necessary travel has been four miles "a ^^y* 

 She has never eaten any grain. Her winter keeping is very ordi- 

 nary. She is expected to calve again on the 21th of March, and 

 will give milk to within three weeks of calving. Her milk is of the 

 first quality. Ten pounds of butter were made from her in one 

 week, and some of her milk used for other purposes. 



JOSEPH KITTREDGE. 



North Andover, September 27th, 1848. 



SYLVANUS NEWHALL'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Milch Cows : 



Gentlemen, — The cow I offer for premium is eight years old, 

 November next. She had her last calf on the 30th of March. I 

 have tested her properties of milk for butter, and kept a correct ac- 

 count of the number of pounds of milk she gave for thirty days, from 

 May 27th to 25th of June. She gave in that thirty days 1255] lbs. ; 

 43 ounces of her milk measures a quart, making an average of 15 

 quarts and a pint for each day. I sold three pints, (with what was 

 used in my family) each day ; from what remained, 422 quarts, I 

 churned 5Gi lbs. of first rate butter. Reckoning the 45 quarts sold 

 to have yielded in the same ratio, it will make a total of 621 lbs. for 

 the above mentioned thirty days, 756 quarts of milk producing a 

 pound of butter, a little rising two pounds per day. The butter was 

 not weighed till after two thorough workings with the hands, the last 

 working being done the second day after churning. The two suc- 

 ceeding months, I kept an account of the weight of the butter only. 

 From June 2Gth to July 31st, 501 lbs., used and sold 2 quarts per- 

 dav, equal to 591? lbs. for 36 days. In the month of August, I 

 churned 32 lbs. and sold and used 2 quarts per day, equal to lOA lbs. 

 Twenty-four days of this month's (September) milk, I churned 



