ON MILCH COWS. 77 



ter, from May 21st, to January lOtli following, besides two 

 quarts of milk daily, reserved for family use. This, of course, 

 must have been the produce of last year. No intimation is 

 given in the statement, for any portion of the time since Jan- 

 uary last. And therefore, in the opinion of the Committee, 

 this cow ought not to be considered a competitor for the pre- 

 miums offered this year. 



The Cow presented by James Poor, of Andover, is reported 

 eight years old, and to give milk of excellent quality. She 

 is said to have made in 1849, in ten months, two hundred and 

 fifty- five pounds of butter. During the months of January, 

 February, March, and April last past, there was made from 

 her milk eighty-three pounds of butter ; she had, during the 

 winter, in addition to hay, only four bushels of shorts. We 

 consider this an extraordinary yield, considering her feed, and 

 also considering that she dropped her last calf in May last. 



She is reported to have made, in the best of the season, ten 

 to twelve pounds of butter per week, and to have given at 

 that time, about twenty quarts of milk per day. If that is 

 so, the Committee do not consider her milk of superior quali- 

 ty, as upon that estimate it requires about fourteen quarts 

 of her milk to produce a pound of butter. 



She is reported now to give from twenty-seven to thirty 

 pounds of milk daily. The Committee regret that the state- 

 ment of the amount of her produce during the summer, had 

 not been as accurately kept as it was for the four months of 

 the last winter and spring. 



Josiah Crosby, of Andover, presented a Cow three fourths 

 Ayrshire blood, and from his statement it appears that, during 

 one week, she gave sixteen and one half quarts of milk per 

 day, and that the week following, her milk made eight and 

 one quarter pounds of butter. 



We learn from him that this was in the month of June. 

 She is reported to give milk up to the time of calving. She 

 is a cow of fine appearance, and probably a valuable animal, 

 and especially to any one keeping a single cow, as she gives 

 milk all the year, u]»on hay and grass feed alone. 



After a careful examination of the several animals, and the 



