MILK YIELD. 



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least yield, 43 pounds. For the month of July she 

 averaged 51 pounds 13 ounces per day. 



One of our neighbors, Mr. Isaac Felch, allows us 

 to take from his book the following record of the 

 yield of his cow Mary, eight years old. She dropped 

 a calf December 2, 1870, and was purchased by him 

 April 19, 1871. 



Total, 122 days, commencing 149 days from calving, 1,821 quarts. 



Mr. Felch milks himself, and records the measure 

 in his note-book at the time. The cow was in a very 

 fat condition, as Mr. Felch is not only an extremely 

 liberal feeder, but a very careful one. 



Mr. Charles Shepherd, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., 

 writes us that he weighed the milk of several of his 

 cows in July, 1869, and it would run from 42 to 50 

 pounds daily. 



Messrs. S. M. & D. Wells, of Wethersfield, Conn., 

 writes that the yield of one of their cows in April 

 is 54 pounds per day. Last week, 50 pounds ; week 

 before, 49 pounds. 



Mr. J. C. Rutherford, of Waddington, N. Y., 

 writes that in 1870 the average of milk per cow 

 from May 1 to October 1, five months, was 38 1 

 pounds, on grass alone. 

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