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corn fodder once a day, given at night. For the past three 

 weeks it has been fed to them both morning and night. 



Quantity of butter made from May 22 to September 22 : — 



9 I ti pounds, sold at 27 cents per pound, . . $255 01 

 One hundred pounds four-meal cheese made, . 8 00 



We used two quarts of milk per day in the family. 



I -would say that the calves dropped on the 25th of April, 

 6th of May, Sth and 14th of June, I raised, giving them new 

 milk for the first ten days ; after that the milk stood from 

 twelve to twenty-four hours. 



West Boylston, September 2G, 1854. 



Statement of Nathan B. Reed. 



My dairy is composed of six cows, aged, respectively, eleven, 

 ten, seven, six, four, and three years. They are the Ayrshire 

 and Holderness breeds, and in part '•' natives," raised by myself. 

 They dropped the last calf April 19. The cows were dried in 

 January, and will calve in May. They were turned to pasture 

 the first of May, and had a small quantity of corn fodder in 

 addition to pasture feed, and have been fed once a day since 

 the first of August. The cow gave during the first ten days in 

 June three hundred and thirty and a half pounds of milk, and 

 in the first ten days of September one hundred and ninety-three 

 pounds. Each cow made during the first ten days of June 

 eighteen and a half pounds of butter, and during the ten days 

 in September thirteen and a half pounds. I have sold five hun- 

 dred and thirty-nine quarts of milk, and used what we needed 

 in our family of six persons. The whole amount of butter 

 made from the time of turning to pasture till September 12 

 was two hundred and seventy pounds ; and of cheese we made 

 one hundred and fifty-six pounds of new milk, and one hundred 

 and twelve pounds of four-meal. My cows were driven half 

 a mile to pasture. I raised all my calves, and have kept six 

 swine. 



