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grain tliey have the equivalent of four quarts shorts and two 

 quarts of meal. This is varied, and is found in corn meal, 

 cotton seed moal, ground oats and shorts. 



In summer, until this year, they have been soiled on clover, 

 grain, oats and fodder corn. This year they have had but one 

 grain feed per day, the others having been one of dry hay and 

 one steamed mess. Grain is given to cows in milk the same as 

 in winter. My cows have never done better at the pail, until 

 the drought compelled driving a long distance to water, than 

 the present season, nor shown better condition. 



" Senora " of Fairviow. — Bred in Kentucky ; dropped her 

 last calf January 16, 1870. Tiiis milk record commences five 

 months after calving. In June, fifteen days (IGth to 30th) 

 412 lbs., average 27 47-100 lbs. per day. In July, thirty-one 

 days, 770 lbs., average 25 13-100 lbs. per day. In August, 

 thirty-one days, 641| ll)s., average 20 70-100 lbs. per day. In 

 September, fifteen days, 257 lbs., average 17 13-100 lbs. per 

 day. Total for ninety-two days, 2,089| lbs. ; average 22 71-100 

 lbs. per day. Slie has been kept in barn upon the usual winter 

 feed, excepting one feed per day of fodder corn ; of grain, 

 four quarts shorts and two quarts of corn and cotton-seed meal 

 mixed. 



" Wenonah." — Four years old ; calved March 27, 1870. In 

 April, thirty days, l,197f lbs., average 39 91-100 lbs. per day. 

 In May, thirty-one days, 1,11G| lbs., average 36 2-100 lbs. per 

 day. In June, thirty days, 998| lbs,, average 33 27 100 lbs. 

 per day. In July, thirty-one days, 851| lbs., average 27 47-100 

 lbs. per day. 



Total,— 112 days, 4,164|- lbs. Average 34 14-100 lbs. per 

 day. August 1st, she was taken from the farm to Fitchburg, 

 for family use, where she now gives a large flow. No record of 

 weight has been kept since July 31st. Greatest yield in one 

 day, 44 lbs. 



"Mtumn Flower, 2d."— Calved February 27,1870, at two 

 years and five montlis. The record commences March 4th. 

 She has been kept in the barn upon the usual winter food, ex- 

 cepting one feed per day (since June) of cut grass, oats or fod- 

 der corn, and has had four quarts of shorts, and two quarts of 

 corn and cotton-seed meal (mixed) per day. In March, twenty- 

 eight days, 926| lbs., average 33 9-100 lbs. per day. In April, 



