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on poor and dry pasture alone, tliis milk made 12^ pounds but- 

 ter a week, or 1 pound for 12 quarts of milk. Her food was 

 poor upland pasture, helped out for six weeks with green corn 

 fodder, about a bushel of grain in all, between grass and roots, 

 and in winter, dry hay and one peck of roots a day. She gave 

 in the rest of April, 1869, 23 days, 23 pounds a day ; May, 1869, 

 31 days, 19| pounds a day ; June, 1869, 30 days, 17 pounds a 

 day. Thus in 14 months of continuous milking, she gave 

 14,700 pounds, or about 7,000 quarts of milk. Average for the 

 year, 35| pounds per day. Her greatest yield was 60 pounds, 

 or nearly cO quarts a day. Sybil certainly surpasses the Oakes 

 cow in her yield of milk. Which was the most profitable cow ? 

 I shall put Sybil's product in milk for the year, about 6,000 

 quarts, against the Oakes cow's product in butter, 484^ pounds, 

 her greatest yield. The milk of Sybil at 5 cents per quart 

 would be worth '$300 ; the butter of the Oakes cow, at 50 cents 

 per pound, $242 12^. Besides this we must make allowance 

 for the suckling of a calf four weeks, and the quart of milk used 

 in the family. Even this allowance would not make her as 

 profitable an animal as Sybil, which was kept at a far less cost. 

 Allowing 12 quarts of milk for 1 pound of butter, Sybil would 

 have yielded 500 pounds of butter during the year. 



In the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massa- 

 chusetts Board of Agriculture, is a statement of J. C. Converse, 

 of Arlington, in regard to his Jersey cow. Lady Milton. She 

 was kept in pasture in June and July, and in August and Sep- 

 tember received green fodder corn at night in addition. Her 

 aggregate yield in butter in July was 79 pounds. From June 

 1st to October 7th, on green fodder without grain, 293| pounds, 

 or an average of l^j^^ pounds per week for 18|- weeks. The 

 first week in July her milk made 18 pounds of butter. Mr. C. 

 says that the above-mentioned product per week for 18| weeks 

 was not an exception to the general product, and that her feed 

 in winter was good hay, steamed roots and corn fodder, mixed 

 with a small quantity of shorts. The Oakes cow averaged more 

 than 16 pounds of butter for three months ; but Lady Milton 

 averaged nearly 16 pounds for more than 4.^ months, on green 

 feed without grain or milk food. Her yield of butter for the 

 year would undoubtedly (if any account had been kept) have 

 gone up to 500 pounds. 



