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pastures. Early in April I was incapacitated from milking, 

 and since then have had eight different milkers. My stock has 

 Buffered severely from this fact, and the yield of milk was seri- 

 ously affected by it. As an instance, the first week after I left 

 off milking, my yield of butter was some eight pounds less than 

 the preceding one, although another cow had been added to 

 the dairy. 



If I have made no mistake, these cows have been milked for 

 an average period of four months and twenty-one days, and for 

 that period averaging a little "more than a pound of butter 

 daily for each. 



My butter is worked twice thoroughly. In the manufacture 

 of it, a " butter worker," or " butter table," is used, by which 

 every particle of buttermilk is removed. The sample on exhi- 

 bition is made as ordinarily, no unusual pains having been taken 

 with it. 



Woucester, September 25, 1854. 



Statement of Henry Boyles. 



I hereby certify that I have made from my dairy, from the 

 1st of May to the 20th of September, ten hundred and eighty- 

 four pounds of butter, and sold two hundred and thirty-nine 

 quarts of milk, and used in my family five quarts per day, and 

 that my dairy has consisted of six cows and four heifers, as 

 follows : — 



Xo. 1 cow calved March 28; calf taken off May 9; farrow, 

 dried September 1. 



Xo. 2 cow calved April 1 ; calf taken off May 9 ; will calve 

 June 1. 



Xo. 3 cow calved April 4; calf taken off May 9 ; farrow. 



No. 4 cow calved March IT ; calf taken off April 23 ; farrow. 



Xo. 5 cow calved March 15 ; calf taken off April 23; killed 

 August 1. 



Xo. G cow calved March 7 ; calf taken off April 8 ; will calve 

 April 1. 



Xo 7, three-year-old heifer calved March 3 ; calf taken off 

 April 8 ; will calve May 10. 



