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by Dr. Thomson, 15 the* two cows experimented on 

 gave 11 J pounds and 8 pounds in two weeks in 

 June. 1 



Jean Armour, 18 the well-known cow of Mr. 

 Peters, gave 6 pounds 3 ounces of butter in 3 days 

 in July. 



The cow Swinley, 17 imported in 1839, gave, in 

 April, 43 pounds 6 ounces of butter; in May, 42 

 pounds 4 ounces ; in June, 44 pounds 7 ounces ; 

 total in three months, 130 pounds 1 ounce. After 

 June, her milk was not kept separate from that of 

 the herd. Largest yield for one week, 14 pounds. 



A cow owned by E. P. Prentice, 18 of Albany, gave 

 12 pounds 7 ounces of butter on grass feed. 



One of the cows imported by the Massachusetts 

 Society for Promotion of Agriculture, 19 gave in the 

 winter trial 10 pounds of butter a week. 



Mr. Miller, ot Delaware Co., N. Y., writes us of 

 one ot his cows giving 14 pounds 13 ounces of 

 butter in one week in June ; also of another giv- 

 ing 14 pounds 11 ounces, and of a third which gave 

 13J pounds in one week in July, 1865, and 18 J 

 pounds the same week in 1867. 



Mr. Charles Shepard, of Ogdensburg, N. Y. , writes 

 us that one of his heifers yielded 14 pounds butter 

 in a week, and that one aged cow gave 18^ pounds 

 in one week. 



15 Thomson's Food of Animals, N. Y., p. 55. 



16 H. H. Peters' Cat. 1865. 



Farmers' Lib. iii, 305. Trans. N. Y. Ag. Soc. 1842, p. 264. 

 is Trans. N. Y. Ag. Soc. 1851, p, 413. 

 19 Farmers' Lib. iii, 304. 



