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breed. I bought her in the state of Maine, two years ago next 

 October. She was giving then, on grass feed, eleven quarts 

 of Milk per day. She calved the April previous. After being 

 put up to hay, she gave nine quarts of milk per day, in De- 

 cember and January ; after that she gradually gave less until 

 April. About six weeks previous to her calving, she gave six 

 quarts per day, when I began to dry her. I found it very dif- 

 ficult to do so, and put her on meadow hay keeping. She 

 calved the 25th of May, 1849. After her calf was killed, I of- 

 ten measured her milk, and she gave fourteen quarts per day 

 through the best of the season. In the fall she gave from nine 

 to eleven quarts per day, varying according to the feed. In 

 December and January last she gave nine quarts per day, after 

 that time she gradually gave less. In May and June she gave 

 six quarts per day. One month before she calved she was giv- 

 ing four quarts per day, when I left off milking her. She cal- 

 ved the ISth of August last, and gave from six to eight quarts 

 per day more than her calf would take. The calf was killed 

 Avhen he was four weeks old ; since then her milk has been 

 weighed, and she averages thirty-six pounds per day. Her 

 keeping has been pasture feed through the warm season; in the 

 winter hay, with occasionally a few carrots. I have sold the 

 most of her milk, having made butter but a small part of the 

 time since I owned her. Her milk is of the first quality, and 

 makes the best of butter. 

 Danvers, Sept. 15, 1850. 



JOHN NICHOLS'S STATEMENT. 

 I offer for premium my red cow, seven years old. Her feed 

 in winter has been English hay, a part of the time Eastern 

 pressed ; since April 20th second crop, with a large bucket of 

 shorts and beets, night and morning. In the summer of 1849, 

 her feed was grass in gallows hill pasture, with shorts and hay 

 at night. After September 1st she had good fall feed, without 

 water in the field — watered night and morning only. Each 

 of the pastures was a mile and a half from home. 



