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keeping thiongh the last winter, was good English hay, with 

 the addition of one quart of meal and two quarts of shorts, from 

 February 8th to June 1st, when she was turned out to pasture. 

 She has had no meal since, excepting one week in June, (when 

 we were making butter,) she had three pints per day. It will 

 thus be perceived that a pound of butter was produced from 

 every six and a half quarts of milk, in the June trial, and from 

 about seven quarts in the April trial. It is in the quality of her 

 milk that I expect she may excel, though the average quantity 

 has been over twelve quarts per day for the last seven months. I 

 tested its properties for butter, in April, 1850, and from twenty- 

 seven and one quarter quarts of mornings' milk, we made four 

 pounds thirteen ounces of butter. I sell her milk at the door, 

 and have only had an opportunity for a few trials. 

 Tewksbury, Sept. 24, 1851. 



Peter Lawsoii's Statement. ' 



My Ayrshire cow, " Charlotte," has had no grain, whatever, 

 and has given an average yield of sixteen quarts of milk per 

 day, this season. We have made no butter. 



Dracut, Sept. 24, 1851. 



P. D. ^j" T. S. Edmands^s Statement. 



The cow which we offer for inspection, has been in our pos- 

 session four years, and is seven years old. She calved about 

 the middle of May, while at pasture ; calf taken from her in ten 

 days, to be raised. We keep no other cattle with her this sea- 

 son. During the month of June, she had no other feed than a 

 poor pasture ; for the last six weeks has had one acre of mow- 

 ing in addition to the pasture ; also^ the refuse of the vegetables 

 that we carried to market. The cow is of native breed, and 

 was raised in Lowell. 



From June 2d to the 28th, twenty-seven days, her milk 

 weighed one thousand and nine pounds. The first seven days 

 in September, her milk weighed two hundred and twenty-two 

 pounds. 



Chelmsford, Sept. 22, 1851. 



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