ON MILCH COWS, 23 



cream of many cows united, "produces more than 80 per cent 

 of pure butter," the process of churning '-being performed in 

 oue minute," nay, "in forty seconds" r 



After so direct an allusion to the splendid experiments of 

 Col. Jaques, of Charlestown, it may not be improper to bring a 

 few facts relating to those experiments once more before the 

 people, and especially before the Society. They are too apt 

 to be forgotten — and yet they ought not to be forgotten or lost 

 sight of. That distinguished, enthusiastic breeder, (every one 

 who means to do much must have some enthusiasm,) no soon- 

 er tinned his attention to the subject, than he perceived that 

 no reliance could be put upon accidental cases of superior cows, 

 however superior they might be. They would begin to fall 

 back in the second generation, and be often, and indeed gener- 

 ally, miserable in the third. "A good cow may have a bad 

 calf," said the spelling book of our boyhood, and every one 

 knows that the descendant of a good cow of no particular 

 breed, may inherit the inferior properties only, of some near or 

 remote ancestor. And especially when it is considered that 

 too many are satisfied to take any and every miserable runt of 

 a bull, it is plain that nothing could be effected in the matter 

 of improving stock in this way. Col. Jaques heard of a noble 

 sized cow, raised in Groton, Mass., the first owner of which 

 knew nothing of her origin. Before coming into the hands of 

 Col. Jaques, she was owned a while in Dorchester by a Mr. 

 Haskins. Her cream was of such extraordinary richness that, 

 according to Mr. Colman, it would often separate into butter 

 by the motion of the carriage while carrying it into Boston. 

 The whole of that remarkable breed of cows, called the Cream- 

 pot breed, and whose products have been hinted at above, de- 

 scended from this native Groton cow, by a cross with the im- 

 proved Durham short horned bull Coelebs, imported some 

 years since, and owned afterwards by Col. Jaques. This breed 

 of cows had reached the third generation in 1S3S, since which 

 time I have not known their history. 



But the facts here recited go to show conclusively, that by 

 a judicious choice of the bull, our native breed of cows can be 

 made to do all that cows ought to do. or ever have done any 



