332 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Making in June 157 pounds of cheese, at 91 cents 



per pound, $14 91 



4 pounds of butter, at 20 cents per pound, . . 80 



$15 71 

 Making in September 114} pounds of cheese, at 9} 



cents per pound, ...... 10 80 



41 pounds of butter, at 20 cents per pound, . . 90 



$11 70 



In September, ten pounds of milk made one pound of cheese. 



My pastures arc upland, and yield sweet feed. I fed, in the 

 month of June, all the whey from the milk made into cheese? 

 without any meal. In September, my pastures being very much 

 dried up, I fed all the whey, with one quart of meal to each 

 cow, and also ten pounds of corn fodder to each cow per day. 



I commence feeding my cows in the spring, before calving, 

 with three quarts of meal each per day, until the feed in the 

 pasture is good. 



I consider the best mixture of grain, ground into meal, for 

 milk, is equal quantities of rye, buckwheat, and oats. For the 

 last ten years I have not made less than live hundred pounds 

 of cheese and twenty pounds of butter to each cow; and one 

 year I made six hundred and forty pounds of cheese and twen- 

 ty pounds of butter to each cow. 



A cow will give more milk on good fresh grass than any 

 other feed. When the grass begins to fail, I make up the de- 



