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nine and one-half quarts of milk — average, eighteen and a half 

 quarts per day. I sold and made use of one-half the milk ; the 

 other half made eight and a quarter pounds of butter, being six- 

 teen and a half pounds per week. The average weight of milk 

 vas forty-seven pounds per day. 



The first week in September she gave ninety-one quarts — 

 average, thirteen quarts per day. One-half the milk made six 

 and a half pounds of butter, being thirteen pounds per week. 



She went to pasture about the middle of May. The first 

 week in June I gave her one quart of meal per day only. In 

 September I fed her with corn fodder, and no meal. 



The milk used for butter was about the same proportion of 

 night and morning milk. I found in June eight quarts of milk 

 made one pound of butter; in September, seven quarts made 

 the same. 



The average quantity of her milk through May was sixteen 

 quarts per day; in June, eighteen quarts per day; in July, six- 

 teen quarts per day ; in August, fourteen quarts per day ; in 

 September, thirteen quarts per day. The whole number of 

 quarts she has given from the 10th of March to September 

 25 is two thousand six hundred and one, besides what the 

 calf took. 



Framingham, September 26, 1854. 



Statement of Abiel S. Lewis. 



I offer for your consideration my half Ayrshire and half Jer- 

 sey cow, Victoria, five years old. She calved in March. Her 

 product for ten days in June was three hundred and seventy 

 pounds of milk, and for ten days in September two hundred 

 and eighty-three and a half pounds of milk, which yielded one 

 pound of butter to fourteen pounds of milk. 



My Durham cow, Eugenia, six years old, calved in April. 

 Her product for ten days in June was four hundred and five 

 pounds of milk, and for ten days in September three hundred 

 and three and a half pounds of milk, seventeen pounds of her 

 milk making one pound of butter. 



My three-quarters native and one-quarter Devon cow, Rosa, 



