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The record is from Sept. 25, 1879, to Sept. 25, 1880. Tlie 

 herd the most of the year contained seven cows, so the total 

 yield is that of the six exhibited for the year, and one in addi- 

 tion from the time of beginning till July 25, the whole amount 

 of milk being fourteen thousand three hundred quarts. The 

 details of the account are given below : 



No. 1. Grade Jersey, 10 years old ; last calved, July 18, 



1879. I have been trying with her the experiment of milking 

 a longer time than usual, without allowing her to become with 

 calf; in this case with good success as her yield for the year 

 is 3484 qts. 



No. 2. Grade Ayrshire, 5 years old ; calved last, April 3, 

 1880 ; will next calve April 4, 1881 ; amount of her milk for 

 the year, (was in milk 10 months), 2301 qts. 



No. 3. Grade Jersey, 11 years old ; last calved, June, 

 1879 ; will calve Nov. 12. Number of qts., 2600, (has been 

 dry 30 days.) '. 



No. 4. Grade Ayrshire, 5 years old ; last calved, June, 



1880, will next calve May, 1881 ; (not dry for the year.) 

 Number of quarts, 1753. 



No. 5. Grade Jersey, 4 years old ; last calved the second 

 day of the present month ; this was her second calf, so that 

 her record of the past year is that of a heifer ; she dropped 

 her Jirst calf in March, 1879, the best part of her flow of milk 

 being over before the trial began ; (dry three months), yield 

 1364 qts. 



No. 6. Grade Jersey, 4 years old ; last calved. May, 1879 ; 

 was due to calve again in May last, but in consequence of au 

 injury lost her calf in February, and was much lessened in 

 value thereby ; she will be due to calve Feb. 16, 1881. Num- 

 ber of quarts, 1575. 



No. 7. Was a native cow, 12 years old, milked and fatted, 

 and gave from the time of commencement to July 25, when 

 she was dry, fourteen hundred and twenty-three quarts, (1423). 



Feed is pasture and corn-fodder in the summer ; salt, mead- 

 ow and English hay in winter, with one feed of cut corn-stalks 



