62 WORCESTER COUNTY SOCIETY. 



John Brooks' Statement. 



Cow eight years old ; weight 1100 lbs. ; calved 13th of March, 

 a heifer calf of good quality; kept with five other cows, on 

 grass only. 



June 10th to 20th, 361 1 lbs. milk. 

 From which, was made 11|| lbs. butter. 

 Sept. 10th to 20th, 332 \ lbs. milk. 

 From which was made 12yV lbs. butter. 



The whole weight of milk, during the twenty days, was 694 

 lbs. ; the cream taken from this milk weighed 55 j^^ lbs., equal 

 to 8 per cent, of the milk ; whole weight of butter made from 

 the cream 23|| lbs., equal to ^2^^^ part of the cream, or 3^^*^ 

 part of the milk, or, in twenty days, the cow made 2xV(j P^^t of 

 her weight in butter. 



William S. Lincoln's Statement. 



Cow, native breed, 8 years old, calved early in May last, to 

 calve early in March next ; calf remarkably large, being a bull, 

 was killed ; kept in a pasture all summer with five other cows, 

 being without subdividing fences, and deprived of the advan- 

 tages to be derived from feeding my mowing land for fall feed. 

 From the time of cutting corn-stalks, fed once a day a limited 

 supply of this fodder, which was all the fodder, except what 

 was derived from a very dry pasture. 



June 10th to 20th, exclusive, 432 lbs milk. 

 Which, when strained, measured 179 quarts. 

 Sept. 10th to 20th, 282 lbs. milk. 

 Which, when strained, measured 122 quarts. 



In June, from the cream of the first five days' milking was 

 churned 93 lbs, butter. From the next five days, Sh, lbs butter ; 



