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years. Two of them calved in October, 1851, one in Novem- 

 ber, and one in December, of the same year ; one in January, 

 1852, one in February, three in March, two in April, one in 

 July, and one in August, of the same year. From the 10th to 

 the 20th of June inclusive, they averaged a fraction short of 

 ten quarts daily ; from the 10th of September to the 19th in- 

 clusive, they averaged a fraction over eight quarts daily, each 

 cow. For the four months, June, July, August, and Septem- 

 ber, they gave 13,569 quarts, which were sold at four cents per 

 quart. Their keeping consisted of rather short pasture ; and 

 they were fed daily with cut hay and three quarts of shorts 

 mbced together, each. From July 1st to September 13th, they 

 were fed with green corn, (stalks?) foddered twice a day. 

 From the last date they were turned into fall feed, with one 

 peck of cut pumpkins, each, without meal. 



Two cows were offered for premium by Amos M. Carleton, 

 of Chicopee Falls. The first is a native, ten years old, owned 

 by him two years and four and a half months ; calved August 

 7, 1852. The account of her milk is rendered for eleven days 

 in June, 1851, and for eleven days in September, 1852. In 

 the former period she gave a fraction short of nineteen quarts 

 (47 pounds) daily ; in the latter period, a fraction short of six- 

 teen quarts (39^^ pounds) daily. She was fed in June on good 

 pastm-age, five and a half pounds of wheat bran and oil meal 

 daily ; in September not so good pasturage, with one bushel 

 of corn stalks cut up at night, and two quarts of common rye 

 meal in the morning. The other cow was a Durham and 

 Ayrshire, four years old, owned seven and a half months; 

 calved January 27, 1852. She gave, in the eleven days in 

 June, 12^ quarts daily; and in the eleven days in September, 

 9^ daily. Her food was a " rather poor pasturage," and in 

 September she had, at night and morning, one bushel of corn 

 stalks cut up. In September, 22 quarts of the milk of this 

 cow gave cream, from which were churned 2|- lbs. of butter; 

 and in February, (the 1st,) one day's milk, twelve quarts, gave 

 one pound ^nd nine ounces of butter. Her keeping was good 

 hay and two quarts of scalded meal per day. The first cow 

 gave, in September, from the cream of twenty quarts, two lbs. 

 and fourteen ounces of butter. 



Two cows were offered by Michael Dome, one of which 



