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of the true breed, and so on : the farther we progress 

 the more sure we may be of a correct resiiU. 



And what an acquisition to the farmer and to the 

 community to possess herds that will give us thrice 

 the milk which our stock at present supplies ! 



The average expense of keeping a cow on hay and 

 grass, in the vicinity of Boston, for a number of years 

 past, may be stated at not less than thirty dollars each. 

 The average value of her milk, made into butter, may 

 be one hundred and forty weight, or seven pounds 

 per week for twenty weeks ; or, at nine quarts per day, 

 9 X 140 = 1260 quarts, and this at four cents per 

 quart = $50 40. Thus the butter, to equal the milk, 

 should bring thirty-six cents per pound. 



We have yet coimted but twenty weeks' milking ; 

 but, with good keeping, cows should be milked not less 

 than forty weeks, and, if turnips and grain are fed out 

 the last twenty weeks, will give half as much as in the 

 first twenty. The produce in milk might then be 

 worth $75 ; in butter, at the common market price, it 

 would be one third less, though the nicest premium 

 butter has often brought more than this milk would 

 amount to. 



We think it quite feasible to rear cows that will give 

 double this quantity of milk or butter ; and how valua- 

 ble must be such stock ! 



FLAT TURNIP. 



To the Editor of the Cultivato?^ : 



Dear Sir, — I have, for three or four years past, 

 taken much pains to raise a crop of the flat turnip, but 

 with no success. I have prepared my land early and 

 late, have sowed my seed on land both wet and dry, 

 in sunshine and shade, also in rainy weather ; have 

 harrowed, raked, hoed, and rolled it in, but to ?io pur- 



