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quarts of milk, the measure being the common milk or beer 

 quart, and the weight per quart of milk two pounds, when 

 weighed warm from the cow. The greatest quantity given per 

 day was in June of 1850, viz., twenty-one quarts and one gill. 

 Her next calf was dropped on the 12th of this month, and it 

 was not without considerable trouble she was dried by the 20th 

 of August, as above. Her milk is very rich in cream ; it has 

 been frequently tried and found to produce one pound of but- 

 ter from seven quarts of milk. During winter, and a part of 

 the summer, she is fed morning and evening, as follows, viz., 

 one quart of Indian meal and one quart of shorts, with one gill of 

 malt, are put in a pail and boiling water poured on till the pail 

 is nearly full ; the contents are stirred, the pail covered with a 

 thick cloth and left till the next meal to cool. In winter she 

 has a peck of carrots daily, at noon, in addition. 



Total number of quarts, 

 Lowell, Sept. 1851. 



9027 



