EECOBDS OF GUERNSEY Cows. 



155 



Weather very variable and trying, mercury once eighteen below 

 zero, and heavy gales. 



MILKING RECORD OF FERNWOOD GUERNSEY HERD, DECEMBER 28TH, 

 1883, WEATHER VARYING AND VERY COLD. 



11 Home bred and acclimated cows. 

 1 Two-year-old heifer. 

 8 Heifers with first calf, just out of quarantine after a 



very hard voyage. 

 5 Cows in same condition. 



25 In all. 



Average time since calving two months and twenty-five days; the 

 heifers had calved in the fall; some of the older cows in milk a long 

 time. Average weight of milk for an even twenty-four hours, seven- 



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GUEBNSEX COW. 



teen pounds, ten ounces. The milk of two or three went to their 

 calves; that of two weighing twenty pounds, twelve ounces, and 

 twenty-one pounds were put in a creamery for heifer tests; the 

 remainder, 393 pounds, was set ten hours in a large, open, deep pan, 

 and the cream made January 1st, 1884, twenty-two pounds of hard 

 butter, so yellow as to need no color, the latter never being used on 



