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as these here recorded need no comment." They speak louder 

 than any words of labored argument possibly can of the impor- 

 tance of keeping the best dairy stock that can be obtained. 

 The product of the cow above referred to, at fourteen dollars 

 nearly, would, in four months, pay the ordinary price of a cow ; 

 while the price of keeping her was very little, if any, greater 

 than the rest of the herd. 



A. H. Waters, Chairman. 



Statement of William S. Lincoln. 



My dairy consists of thirteen cows, twelve of which are kept 

 for dairy purposes, and one for the use of my family. 



Since the 1st of August, the cow reserved for the family 

 giving an insufficient quantity of milk, one milking of one of 

 the twelve cows, daily, has been taken from the dairy for 

 family use. 



I have one full-blood Ayrshire, one full-blood Devon, two 

 thorough-bred and six grade Ayrshires, and three called 

 "natives." 



Of these I have raised five, the rest having been purchased 

 by me at different times. 



One is two years old, and one three, each with her first calf. 



From the 1st of January to the 24th of April, inclusive, I had 

 made four hundred and twenty-two pounds and eight ounces of 

 butter. 



For the purpose of another trial, I divided my dairy into 

 two lots, of five cows, and six cows and heifers. For the last 

 five months each cow has been milked separately, and the 

 cream of each lot of cows churned by itself. The product 

 was eight hundred and fifty-four pounds and eight and one-half 

 ounces of butter.* 



The food of these cows was pasture till the 1st of August. 

 At that time for about two weeks they had corn fodder in the 

 barn at the times of milking. Subsequently, the corn fodder 

 having been all fed out, they have picked all they got from the 



* A detailed statement of the product of this dairy will be found on a subse- 

 quent page. 



