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Omitting fractions, my dairy of six cows, had they been 

 milked the full period of five months, at the rate of yield for 

 the time of actual milking, would have given nine hundred and 

 twenty pounds four and a half ounces of butter. It will be re- 

 membered that this was upon pasture feed alone. 



Different families in this city, and at Boston and Dorchester, 

 have been supplied by me the past season ; and the average 

 price of the butter has been two shillings per. pound, amounting 

 to three hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-five cents, 

 or sixty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents per cow for the five 

 months. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Worcester, September 25, 1854. — Then appeared the 

 above-named William S. Lincoln and made oath that the fore- 

 going statement, by him subscribed, is true. 



Before me, 



John A. Dana, Justice of the Peace. 



Statement of William Robinson, Jr. 



I offer for the State Society's premium six cows, three of 

 which were raised by me ; two are seven years old, one six 

 years. The three were raised, one by Elias Ayres, formerly of 

 this town, and now located in Virginia, and is nine years old ; 

 one by David Lee, and is six years old ; and one by Harrison 

 Bacon, and is eight years old. They are all grade Durhams 

 from one-half to three-quarters, and five of them were sired by 

 bulls brought to this town from Albany by Elias Ayres. There 

 were four of them brought up, when calves, on whey, and I be- 

 lieve all of them, though I am not able to state positively in 

 reference to two of those which I bought. Those I raised 

 had calves when two years old, and the others I do not know 

 about. 



These cows have been pastured with my dairy of sixteen 

 cows in a good pasture of natural land, on which there had 

 formerly been plaster of Paris, or gypsum, applied, but not for 



