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12, four thousand nine hundred and two pounds of new milk 

 cheese. Sixteen hogs fed on the waste of the dairy till August 

 1 ; since then they have had fifty bushels of provender. I have 

 made during the season six thousand nine hundred and thirty- 

 five pounds of cheese, and have sold three calves, from two to 

 ten days old, for thirty-two dollars. 



Barre, 1854. 



Statement of William W. Watson. 



The cow offered for premium gave the first ten days in June 

 thirty-five pounds of strained milk per day, and it made twenty 

 pounds of butter. The first ten days in September she gave 

 thirty-four pounds per day, which made fifteen pounds of butter. 

 The milk was all put into skim-milk cheese. 



I offer for premium also six other cows, one of which is ex- 

 hibited. They gave thirty-two pounds of milk each a day the 

 first ten days in June, and made ninety pounds of butter. The 

 first ten days in September they gave twenty-two pounds each. 

 a day, which made seventy pounds of butter. 



In June, July, and August I kept the morning's milk twenty- 

 four hours, and the night's milk twelve hours. In five months 

 the six cows made one thousand four hundred and ninety-seven 

 pounds of skim-milk cheese, which has been sold so as to average 

 seven and a half cents per pound in market. The cows have 

 had good pasturing, and been driven one mile to pasture each, 

 day, and have had no extra feed. Two of the cows calved in 

 February, and four in March. I have raised five of the calves. 



Barre, 1854. 



Statement of William Eames. 



The cow I offer for premium is five years old, and is one-half 

 Devon and one-half Durham, raised by myself. She calved on 

 the 10th of May. Being in want of milk, I sold the calf at a 

 week old; it was an ordinary bull calf, got by accident. I 

 dried her off the 1st of March, and she is expected to calve 

 again the middle of April. She has run in a good pasture with 



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