10 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



Henry Creesy's Statement. 



The cow which I offer for exhibition and premium, is six 

 years old. She calved the 21st of May, and has given milk as 

 follows : 



From May 21st to June 21st, . . 1,469 lbs. 4 oz. 

 " June 21st to July 21st, . . 1,264 lbs. 



" July 21st to August 21st, . . 1,127 lbs. 8 oz. 

 " August 21st to September 21st. . 956 lbs. 8 oz. 



Total, 4817 lbs. 4 oz. 



We sell most of the milk, but in order to ascertain the quality 

 of her milk, we have made butter from it, and find that it takes 

 nineteen pounds of milk to one pound of butter. Her keeping- 

 has been good grass feed, with the exception of seven weeks, 

 when she had two quarts of shorts per day. The said cow was 

 raised by John Bartlett of Marblehead, and has been owned by 

 me two years and six months. 



Salem, September 24th, 1845. 



Warren AverilVs Statement. 



I offer for your inspection my cow Flora, of native breed, six 

 years old. The said cow calved on the 21st of last April. The 

 calf was kept to her until the 13th day of May. With what 

 milk the calf left, and all after taking the calf from her until 

 the 20th of May, we made 20 lbs. 8 oz. of butter. Beginning 

 at the 20th of May, we kept an account of the milk by weight, 

 morning and night, for the four months following, which is 4,375 

 lbs. Butter from said milk, 211 lbs. 2 oz. From the 20th of 

 May to the last day of June, inclusive, 84 lbs. 2 oz. In July, 

 52 lbs. In August, 43 lbs. Twenty days in September, 32 lbs. 

 2 oz. Said cow would have risen 35 lbs. in September, had she 

 not met with an accident by getting one of her teats jammed on 

 the 14th, in consequence of which we did not use the milk from 

 that quarter of the bag for butter. The first fourteen days in 

 September, she made 24 lbs. From the 20th of May to the last 

 day of June, she gave 1,597 lbs. of milk; in July, 1,115 lbs.; 



