50 ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 



of an opinion that he can at any time increase the milk of his 

 cows in the proportion of eight to five by increasing their 

 allowance of potatoes and meal. — These quantities, however, 

 upon the whole, appear to your Committee small. A cow 

 owned by John Barr in Salem, which took a premium in 

 Brighton in 1822, ga^e in 274 days 2965i quarts, and in 2(58 

 days in 1823, — 2923 quarts which is at the rate of more than 

 lOf quarts per day. A cow owned by a Mr. Sanderson at 

 Waltham is stated to have given in the last year 1140 gallons 

 which is at the rate of 12 46-365 quarts per day. Curwen in 

 England, in his milk establishment of twenty three cows, speaks 

 of two winter cows averaging 14j- quarts of milk per day from 

 January to May, and that three summer ones averaged sixteen 

 quarts each per day from May to November, six months. This 

 was wine measure. Harley, at his famous Dairy in Glasgow, 

 where a hundred cows were kept, an establishment which was 

 the admiration of the whole country, says that he had one cow, 

 which for a considerable time gave forty quarts per day and was 

 milked three times per day, and he had a number of other fine 

 cows, which when newly calved and highly fed, produced from 

 twenty five to thirty quarts per day, (wine measure probably.) 



The Rev. Henry Berry has furnished an account of the 

 produce of the cows of I. Whitaker near Greenholme, Eng. — 

 They have given and give twice a day as follows : 



goJFs qts. 



Yellow Rose, at three years old. 



Same " at four years old, 



Red Daisy, 



Magdalene, upwards of 



Wildalr, 



Western Lady, 



Venus, 16 years old, 



Alfrede, 



Adela, first calf, 



Yam, 



Moss Rose, at all times, a moving 

 mountain of flesh, 



All wine measure. 



