MILCH COWS. 3T 



Webster gave five quarts per day to the time she dropped her 

 calf, June 25th, and the third day after she gave 18 1-2 quarts, 

 and averaged more than 16 quarts for the next thirty days. Her 

 calf, which I am raising, had for the first month four quarts of milk 

 per day, since that time two quarts per day, which has not been 

 taken into consideration in the above account. 



The two cows that calved, viz: — Red, Sept. 7, 1854, and Moss, 

 November 28, 1854, are the best milkers of the seven. They are 

 nearly dry now, and are with calf, to come in October 15th and 

 26th. I think if five out of the seven had come in the 1st of April, 

 they would have given as much or more milk during the trial than 

 the whole seven have. 



Received for milk in April, 109 gals, at 24 cts. per gal. ^26.16 

 " " from May 1 to Sept. 22, 2259 gals, at 20c. 451.80 



$477.96 

 I think the expense of marketing the milk has not exceeded 



what it would have cost to have made the same into either butter 



or cheese, including making sale of same. 

 Bradford, Sept. 25, 1855. 



MILCH CO\VS 



The Committee on Milch Cows respectfully present the accompa- 

 nying report. 

 The were ten cows entered for premium. Statements more or 

 less general, tending to show the product of their cows for some 

 part of the season, were made in writing by the owners of jive. 

 The verbal statements of the owners, or persons having in charge 

 the remaining five, were exceedingly vague and indefinite — so that 

 the committee had no reliable evidence of their quality — except 

 that which is perhaps in many cases the lest, the evidence of their 

 own eyesight. 



