95 



April, 1869, 23 days, 23 lbs a day. 

 May, 1869, 31 '' 19 1-2 lbs. a day. 

 June " 30 " 17 " " 



Thus in 14 months of continuous milking, she gave 14,700 

 lbs., or about 7,000 quarts of milk. Average for the year, 

 35 3-4 lbs. 25er day. Her greatest yield was 60 lbs., or nearly 

 30 quarts a day. Sybil certainly surpasses the Oakes cow in 

 her yield of milk. Which was the most profitable cow? I 

 shall put Sybil's product in milk for the year, about 6,000 qts., 

 Jigains^t the Oakes cow's product in butter, 484 1-4 lbs., her 

 greatest yield. The milk of Sybil at 5 cents per quart, would 

 Ix; worth $300 ; the butter of the Oakes cow, at 50 cents j)er 

 lb., $242,12 1-2. Besides this, we must make allowance for 

 the suckling of a calf four weeks, and the quart of milk used 

 in iliQ family. Even this allowance Avould not make her as 

 profitable an animal as Sybil, who was kept at afar less cost. 

 Allowing 12 quarts of milk for 1 \h, of butter, vSybil woid<l 

 have yielded 500 lbs of butter during the year. 



In the fifteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Board of Agriculture, is a statement of J. C. CVm- 

 verse, of Arlington, in regard to his Jersey cow Lady Milton. 

 She Avas kept in pasture in June and July, and in August 

 -and September received green fodder corn at night in addition. 

 Her aggregate yield in butter in July was 79 lbs. From June 

 1st to October 7th, on green fodder without grain, 293 1-2 

 li>s, or an average of 15 92-100 lbs. per week for 18 3-7 

 weeks. The first week in July her milk made 18 lbs. of but- 

 ter. ]Mr. C. says that the above mentioned product per week 

 for 18 3-7 weeks was not an exception to the general product, 

 and that her feed in winter was good hay, steamed roots and 

 com fodder, mixed with a small quantity of shorts. The 

 Oakes Cow averaoed more than 16 lbs. of butter for three 

 months ; but Ladv Milton averasred nearly 16 lbs. for more 

 than 4 1-2 months, on green feed without grain or milk food. 



