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breeders, says : " Seventeen years' experience convinces me, 

 unqualifiedly, of their superiority as butter-makers." 



Judge George, of Orange County, N. Y., says : " I have 

 bred Durhams, Ayrshires and Devons, and I think the Alder- 

 neys decidedly more profitable for butter." 



Mr. Goodman, of Berkshire, " has made a pound of butter 

 from five quarts of milk." 



Messrs. Converse and Flagler's account of their own two 

 cows, " Lady Milton " and " Cream Pot," is perhaps unequalled. 

 It is as follows, for June, July and August, 1868 : " Lady Mil- 

 ton," product, milk, 1,595 quarts ; product, butter 249 pounds 

 and a fraction. " Cream Pot," product, milk, 1,533 quarts ; 

 product, butter, 239|- pounds. 



Our farmers will notice that we speak of the Jersey cow as a 

 butter cow only. The farmer who simply wants the most milk 

 to sell by the quart, meaning to kill off his calves when they are 

 very few days old, that his cans may be filled, might find it 

 more profitable to him to have Ayrshires or grades or good na- 

 tives. In fact, we have no doubt that the Ayrshire, for cheese 

 and quantity of milk, is ahead of the Jersey. Yet we have no 

 doubt that a farmer who intends to sell milk and raise his own 

 stock for that purpose, will do a great deal better by having^ 

 thoroughbreds, whether Shorthorns, Ayrshires or Devons, than 

 natives or grades. 



There are but few who appreciate the quantity of milk used 

 in the United States. The trade for a single locality is enor- 

 mous. Into the city of New York alone, each day there comes 

 a great stream of milk over the Harlem road, another over the 

 Erie Railroad, another over the New Haven, another by the 

 Hudson, and still another by the Long Island. Twenty-five 

 thousand dollars' worth of milk a day comes flowing into this 

 one city — more than 19,000,000 worth a year. 



The milk in this county, for the last ten years, has increased 

 to an average of five quarts a day to each cow, from about three 

 quarts. Now, when we remember that the number of cows in 

 the States is this day over nine millions, and the annual value 

 of their milk is over six hundred and seventy-five millions of 

 dollars, what a vast work would the farmers do to increase that, 

 as we have in Nantucket, two-fifths. Who would be mean 

 enough to talk about repudiation, when the national debt of the 



