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August, 987 lbs. ; twenty days in September, 676 lbs. Average 

 through the four months per day, 35 lbs. 105-122. To July, 

 39 lbs. 37-40 ; July, 36 lbs. ; August, 32 lbs. ; September, 33 lbs. 

 16-20. Average on the butter to July, 19 lbs. In July, 21 lbs. 

 23-52 ; August, 22 lbs. 41-43 ; September, 21 lbs. 4-32. Through 

 the season, four months, 20 lbs. 155-211. 



Manner of keeping said cow. After she calved, I commenced 

 giving her two quarts of meal per day, until the last day of 

 May. The 20th day of May, I put her to pasture by herself. 

 Her pasture was good through June : the first week in July it 

 failed, so I took her out, and put her in an old pasture with other 

 cows for three weeks, to let my pasture grow. I then put her 

 back again in my pasture, and kept her until the 24th day of 

 August, when I put her with another cow in new feed. I com- 

 menced giving her the 30th of August one quart of Indian meal 

 and one quart of rye meal every night. She had no meal, roots 

 or any thing, only what the pasture afforded, from the 1st day 

 of June until the 30th day of August. 



Ipswich, September 23. 1845. 



William Williams's Statement. 



The cow offered for a premium is seven years old, and of na- 

 tive breed. She calved Feb. 6, 1845. The calf sucked till he was 

 six weeks and three days old, and was then sold to a butcher for 

 ten dollars. During these six weeks. I sold fifty-two quarts of milk 

 from her, and made seven pounds and a half of butter. The 

 calf had nothing but what he got from the cow. She gave, from 

 the time the calf was taken from her till the first of August, 

 from fourteen to fifteen quarts per day, which was a few days 

 over four months. She gives now eight quarts per day. She 

 had nothing but salt hay till she calved, then she had for two 

 months one foddering of English hay at noon, and half of a bushel 

 of carrots per day. After the two months, she did not have the 

 carrots, but had one foddering of English hay at noon, and salt 

 hay night and morning, till pasture time. She has had nothing but 

 what she has got in the pasture since, and that is very short as 

 it has been so dry. The first two weeks after she calved, she 

 gave ten quarts of milk per day more than the calf could suck. 



