34 MILK RECORD. 



Mr. B. Harrington, of Worcester, Mass., writes 

 us as the average of seven cows, 18| quarts a day, 

 and 16| quarts for four months. 



Mr. Luke Svveetser, of Amherst, Mass., writes us 

 that one of his cows, weighing but 860 pounds, six 

 years old, gave 300 pounds of milk in seven days, 

 and that his cows have ranged from 30 to 50 pounds 

 a day. 



Mr. J. D. W. French, of North Audover, Mass., 

 writes us that his cow Dolly gave 2,471 pounds 

 of milk from June 18, 1871, to Sept. 4, 1871, when 

 the record was interrupted by the sending of the cow 

 to the Fairs. 



Mr. A. P. Ball, of Staustead, P. Q , writes us that 

 his yield is 16 quarts in summer and 8 quarts per 

 cow now (October). 



Mr. Thomas Miller, of Delaware Co., N. Y., writes 

 us that one of his cows, thirteen days from calving, 

 was giving 55 pounds daily, while another in June 

 averaged 24 quarts. 



Mr. J. C. Converse, of Jefferson Co., N. Y., 

 writes that one of his cows, as a two-year old, gave 

 40 pounds daily, and as a cow, was giving 55 pounds 

 daily in June, and in July, 1871, 45 pounds on 

 pasture. 



In 1873 Gen. S. D. Hungerford, of Adams, Jef- 

 ferson County, N. Y., exhibited at the New York 

 State Fair at Albany an Ayrshire 16 cow known as 

 Old Creamer, whose yield of milk has never to our 

 knowledge been surpassed. 



16 This account taken from a card appended to her photograph, sent us by 

 General H. Bhe is probablj seven eighths Ayrshire. 



