MILCH COWS. 315 



577 12 



Of this lot two animals have given milk the whole period, 

 one four months and seventeen days, one three months and 

 two days, one two months and twenty-six days, and one one 

 month and seventeen days, making an average period of three 

 months and twenty and one-third days, and an average daily 

 yield of fourteen and ten-twelfths ounces of butter to each cow 

 for the above peried. The greatest amount of butter in any 

 one week of the above period was thirty-seven pounds ten 

 and one-half ounces from five cows, or an average of seven 

 pounds eight ounces to each animal. This was also upon pas- 

 ture solely. 



Should the committee be of opinion that this division of the 

 dairy is not in compliance with the spirit of the offer, the aver- 

 age period of time of milking the cows comprising the whole 

 dairy will be four months and a little more than twelve days; 



