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fed oil green food. During winter and spring months, con- 

 sumed, on a daily average, nine quarts siiorts, one quart linseed 

 meal and two quarts corn-meal, with corn stover and a poor 

 quality of hay. Excellent calves. On one trial, Jersey gave 15 

 per cent, cream ; Fanny, (Ayrshire,) gave 8|^ per cent ; average 

 natives, 7^ per cent. 



Statement of Henry Bright, Jr. 



Milch cow, grade Durham ; dark red ; eight years old. She 

 calved last in May, 1867, and missing service, will not calve 

 until October, 1868. She gave thirty-eight pounds of milk per 

 day all summer of 1867, and continued giving about that quan- 

 tity most of the fall, gradually falling off to twenty-eight pounds 

 during the winter. When turned out to grass in May, 1868, 

 she increased to thirty-two pounds per day ; and in July, 1868, 

 fifteen months after calving, she gave twenty-seven pounds per 

 day, and now gives ten pounds per day, and is to calve in about 

 three weeks. 



Statement of Luther Stoivell. 



The cow I enter for premium is nine years old. She dropped 

 her last calf January 17, 1868. The calf was taken from her 

 January 24. Seven days in January she gave 186|- quarts of 

 milk ; weight, 273 pounds. From January 24 to February 6 

 she made twenty-six pounds of butter in thirteen days. Winter 

 feed was two quarts of shorts per day. Seven days in June she 

 gave 104 quarts ; weight, 258 pounds 9 ounces. She was 

 turned to pasture May 24. Three months from January 24 sh6 

 made 122| pounds of butter, and sold 279 quarts of milk. Her 

 feed since has been pasturing. 



Framingham, September, 1868. • 



Statement of S. B. Bird. 

 The cow which I present for premium is a grade Ayrshire, 

 and dropped her calf the 25th of May ; and in seven days in 

 July she gave 271 pounds of milk, and in seven days in Sep- 

 tember she gave 238 pounds. Her feed in July was grass, and 

 in September grass and corn-fodder. The calf was sold, at six 

 weeks' old, for sixteen cents per pound, and weighed 118 pounds. 



