lOi MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



more profitable than the same quantity from two ; and that ive 

 cannot expect a cow to return us any more 7nilk or butter than 

 we furnish her materials for. 

 Weston, September 19, 1804. 



Statement of Joseph L. Hard. 



My cows in the winter were fed with fair English hay and 

 cut feed, giving each cow two quarts of corn meal per day. 

 The bulls received not over a quart per day. In summer the 

 milch cows and bull " Don " have been fed principally on 

 green fodder, southern corn and oats having been sown for that 

 purpose. 



They have been allowed to run two hours in tlie pasture in 

 the morning, and one hour in the evening. My feed, owing to 

 the drouth, having given out, they have, at times, been kept out 

 all day. The pastures suffering from the same cause, the cows 

 have received four quarts of cob and corn meal per day. 



All my Jersey cattle are stabled every night, excepting 

 " Prince Albert " and " Abraham," who are kept out all 

 summer, excepting when brought in for a short time for some 

 special reason. 



For quantity of milk, I have only tried "Victoria," "Nellie" 

 and " Beauty," who, in full flow, average about eighteen quarts 

 per day, the first giving eighteen and a half, and the others 

 seventeen and three-quarters each. 



Quantity of butter I cannot state, but I claim that the cows 

 exhibited by me give a very large quantity of exceedingly rich 

 milk. 



The only known profit that I have yet derived from my herd 

 is the pleasure that I have experienced in seeing them and 

 exhibiting them to others. I expect, however, by next season 

 to realise a profit from the sales of the stock, — offers that I have 

 had for many of my animals justifying that expectation. 



Concord, September 22, 1864. 



Statement of George 31. Barrett., 



The herd of cattle that I offer for examination and premium, 

 were all raised in Concord but one ; she, by Lyman, of Waltham. 

 The herd consists of seven cows and a bull. 



