334 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Names of cows. Age. Pounds per Pounds per Average per Pounds per 



Averaging thirty-four and a half pounds per day in June, and a 

 little over twenty pounds of milk per day in September, for 

 each cow. 



This is making in June, out of fourteen hundred and thirty- 

 two pounds of milk, one hundred and sixty-five pounds of cheese, 

 at nine and one-half cents per pound, equal to fourteen dollars 

 and eighty-five cents ; and making in September, out of eight hun- 

 dred and fifty and one-half pounds of milk, one hundred and six 

 pounds of cheese, at nine and one-half cents, equal to ten dol- 

 lars and seven cents ; taking less than nine pounds of milk to 

 one pound of cheese. I weighed the cheese at fourteen days 

 old. It made in June twenty-three and nine-sixteenths pounds 

 per week to each cow, — a little short of four pounds per day, — 

 and in September fifteen and two-sixteenths pounds per week 

 to each cow, or two and one-half pounds per day. 



I fed to my cows in June four quarts of wheat shorts, with 

 whey, per day to each one of them. In September, two quarts 

 of shorts wet in water and a handful of corn fodder each. 



I feed in the spring, before and after calving, two quarts of 

 meal (rye and oats ground together) to each cow. My pasture 

 produces good sweet feed ; it suffered with the drought after 

 June. The six cows have made this year, up to the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, two thousand five hundred pounds of cheese, and thirty 

 pounds of butter to each cow, and will make one thousand 

 pounds more of cheese. I have made, for the last five years, 

 five hundred and iif'ty pounds of cheese to a cow, and thirty 

 pounds of butter. 



