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August, about five months from her calving, she made 14 

 pounds in ten days ; food, grass, with two quarts provender 

 daily. This would give an average of full 15 pounds in ten 

 days for 182 days, which is half a year, and at this rate, 273 

 pounds in 182 days, and 273 pounds of butter, at one shilling 

 a pound, is $A5 50. 



Third premium of three dollars, to James P. Dexter. His 

 cow, from the 15th of July to the 24th, (ten days,) gave from 

 34 to 38 pounds of milk, and made 15 1-2 pounds of butter. 

 During a period in September, of ten days, her average quan- 

 tity of milk was 34 pounds, from which he made 14 pounds of 

 butter. Her feed was grass, with two quarts of provender 

 daily. The cow calved the 4th of March, and the calf was of 

 a good quality. 



Fourth premium of two dollars, to H. L. Burnham. The 

 milk of his cow, from October 1st to 21st, was five quarts per 

 day ; very yellow and sweet. Used one quart per day in the 

 family. The butter made in that time was nine ounces per 

 day, the cow had only pasture feed. She calved on the 1st of 

 August, 1850. 



A cow was entered by Alvan Barnard, of Amherst, and by 

 his statement, (that she yielded 113 12-16 pounds of milk in 

 three days, ending October 18th, from which he churned 5 12- 

 16 pounds of butter, appears to be a very valuable animal, and 

 would have been entitled to a high premium had the conditions 

 of the society been complied with on his part. We recom- 

 mend to him a gratuity of $1 00. 



We see occasionally a cow that produces 14 pounds of but- 

 ter in a week, but how seldom ! Now the question arises, how 

 can we breed good coavs ? In all animals, as well as vegeta- 

 bles, like produces like. But here there seems to be a great 

 uncertainty. A good cow, perhaps the most useful among 

 domestic animals, and what every family needs, seems to come 

 by chance. If a man happens to have a good cow, it is no 

 doubt very agreeable to take a prize ; but he has done nothing 

 to make her what she is, and he is not certain of rearing another 

 like her. 



If there is a breed of cattle in the world that can be relied 



