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Her feed has been two quarts of cotton seed, two quarts of 

 corn meal, and three quarts of shorts, per day, with hay three 

 times a day until pasturing time. Continued to grain her as 

 above, and to help out deficiency in pasture, have given some 

 green fodder. W. A. Jacobs. 



I enter my Ayrshire Cow, six years old last February. She 

 dropped her last calf Aug. 20, 1882 and milked at that time 

 16 quarts strained milk per day ; is now giving 8 quarts per 

 day ; is due to calve Feb. 1st. Her feed has been pasture, 

 with no other feed until September ; in winter, corn fodder 

 and black grass, with one-half bushel mangel wurtzels. 



John S. Ives. 



I enter my Ayrshire Cow, nine years old. She calved July 

 24, 1883, and gave last week 18 quarts milk per day. on 

 pasture feed, with corn fodder at night. Last March, when 

 heavy with calf, she milked nine quarts per day. 



John S. Ives. 



I enter a Jersey Cow, four years old, June 15th, 1883. 

 Milked 16 quarts for four months after calving, Jan. 1st, now 

 giving 12 quarts per day. Timothy O'Keefe. 



I enter one cow with calf, age four years ; calved last 

 Saturday night. Sept 22d. She milked after her first calf, 

 from 14 to 16 qts. a day, for three months. After her second 

 calf, 18 to 20 qts. a day. This being her third, haven't had 

 an opportunity to say anything on her present milking quali- 

 ties. In feeding she was never forced, as she only gets 4 qts. 

 of shorts a day, in winter, with English hay, and nothing but 

 her pasture in summer. She was milked regularly, up to four 

 weeks of her calving, and then she was milked once a day ; 

 would milk up to time of calving. She gives rich milk, also 

 makes splendid butter. 



Patrick Tracy, Grove street, Salem. 



Sherman Nelson, John Swinerton, Thos. G. Ordway. — 

 Committee. 



