62 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



made 28 lbs. of butter; 3.984 per cent, of ber milk was butter; 

 average daily flow of milk was 35.137 lbs. ; average daily flow of 

 milk on ber live weight was 3.472 per cent. 



Cow, Speckled, |- Ayrshire, six years old ; dropped her last calf 

 April 6, 1857; sold to raise at one week old, for $3.50; calves 

 again in April, 1858; her live weight 980 lbs.; her yield of milk 

 first ten days in June, 1857, was 327^ lbs. ; first ten days in 

 September, 316^ lbs., in the twenty days 643^ lbs., which made 

 25 lbs. of butter ; 3.883 per cent, of her milk was butter. Average 

 daily flow of milk was 32.187 lbs. ; average daily flow of milk on 

 her live weight was 3.284 per cent. 



All these cows are grade Ayrshires, from the bull " McGregor," 

 imported by the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agricul- 

 ture, and presented by them to the Worcester County Agricultural 

 Societ)% except " Speckled," whose dam was one-half Ayrshire, 

 from the bull presented by John P. Cashing, of Watertown, to the 

 "Worcester County Agricultural Society. 



KECAPITULATION. 



Yield of milk of the herd in twenty days, 3,075|- pounds. 



Yield in butter of the herd in twenty days, 129 pounds. 



Average per cent, of the milk which was butter, 4.176. 



Average daily flow of milk, for each cow of the herd, for twenty 

 days, 38.440 pounds. 



Average daily yield of butter for each cow of the herd, 1.613 

 pounds. 



Live weight of the herd, 4,122. Daily flow of milk on the live 

 weight of the herd 3.732 per cent. 



Feed of herd, pasture grass only. 



MILCH COWS. 



In North Holland, the attention of the farmers is devoted 

 especially to the dairy and the making of cheese. They sup- 

 port themselves almost exclusively upon this branch of farming, 

 and hence it is held in the highest respect and carried to a 

 higher degree of exactness and perfection, perhaps, than in any 

 Other part of the world. They are especially particular in the 

 breeding, keeping, and care of milch cows, as on them their 

 whole success depends. The following characteristics of a well- 

 developed and well-kept milch cow, I translate literally from 

 an excellent and practical little treatise on The Dutch System 



