ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 27 



At three weeks old she had what milk she wanted or would 

 suck, and had a trough of Indian meal and another of cut potatoes, 

 rack of good hay, and water always by her ; at four weeks old 

 she was reduced one teat ; at 6ve weeks old two teats ; at six 

 weeks old three teats, and at seven weeks old was entirely wean- 

 ed and put to pasture, continuing to have meal and potatoes a 

 week or ten days longer. 



After which, she remained in pasture till housing time in the 

 fall, when she was fed with the best meadow and salt hay ; and 

 the two last winters on conjmon meadow and salt hay ; be- 

 ing regularly carded daily and kept dry and clean, and during the 

 summer in common pasturage with the other animals, having had 

 no grain or provender of any description since she was a calf, ex- 

 xjept the week after calving when we gave her a quart of cob 

 «orn meal once or twice. She calved a large fine heifer calf the 

 27th of INIay last, which was taken away from her the 11th of 

 June. The first milking was five hours after calving, and after 

 the calf had sucked what she would; appearing large to my man, 

 Jie measured it before giving it to the hogs and found it exceed- 

 ing six quarts. Not thinking of exhibiting her at the cattle show 

 till within a day or two, have not measured her milk. She has 

 given a very large mess of milk through the summ€r when the 

 feed was good ; and this week, since thinking of sending her for 

 exhibition, have measured her milk and find she gives rising two 

 gallons per day of a rich and excellent quality. 



I also send for your examination only, my two year old heifer 

 Venus, out of Violet hy " Young Bolivar," a three-quarters im- 

 proved Durham short horned Bull of fir?t rate pedigree. Violet, 

 a first rate native cow remarkable for her progeny and beauty 

 as well as milking properties. I have not time to go into fur- 

 ther detail, except to say she is impregnated so as to come in with 

 her first calf the 1st of June next, with the hope that the grass, 

 with the aid of her great milking ancestry, will stuff out 

 her young udders and will make her worthy of her pa- 

 rentage. Her grand sire. Colonel Powel's Bolivar, of Phila- 

 delphia : her great grand sire Casiebs, lately belonging to 

 Major Jaques of Charlestown near Boston^ of first blood on the 



