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fully groomed every morning. This is my treatment from the 

 time they enter the barn in the fall until they are sent to pas- 

 ture in the spring. The grain costs twenty cents a bushel at 

 the brewery, and the hay sixteen dollars a ton at the barn. 

 The cow Lupin dropped her calf the 1st of March, Lillian the 

 1st of April, Beauty the 20th, and Jenny the 22d of April. 

 The average quantity of milk from the time they dropped their 

 calves until the 1st of July was 16 quarts of milk apiece per 

 day ; and from that time to September 20 they gave from 10 

 to 12 quarts apiece per day. This falling off in milk was owing 

 to the flies and short feed in the pasture. They were driven 

 about one and a half miles to pasture. The age of Beauty is 

 nine; grade Ayrshire and Durham. Jenny is eight; Durham 

 and native. Lupin is live ; Jersey and Ayrshire. Lillian is 

 four ; native and Jersey. Fanny dropped her calf September 

 19, and is eight years old, and gives now 16 quarts of milk per 

 day. Texalaer is five ; dropped her calf October, 1867, and is 

 to have another the present month (October, 1868.) The milk 

 is sold at the house at 6 cents per quart in the summer, and 7 

 cents in the winter. 



MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



Stateme?it of Horace Holt. 



The cow I enter for your examination is half Jersey and half 

 Durham. She calved on the 30th of May last, and is expected 

 to calve again May 2. Her feed was an average pasture and 

 one quart of meal per day. She gave, in the second week in 

 June, one hundred twenty-nine and one-half quarts, an average 

 of eighteen and three-sevenths quarts per day. During the first 

 week in September she gave eighty-six quarts, an average of 

 twelve and a half quarts per day. Age, eight years. 



Chelmsford, September 23, 1868. 



Statement of John Hig-g'ins. 



The cow " Fannie " I offer for a premium, was raised in 

 Lowell, was ten years old last spring. Her blood is one-half 

 Alderncy and one-half native. She dropped her last calf April 

 3 ; will calve again February 16, 1869. Tlie second week in 

 June she gave twenty-five and one-half quarts of milk per day, 

 and made thirteen and one-third pounds of butter per week. 



