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makes the very first rate of butter, as also a large 

 quantity, the milk is rich and good. 



ALBERT JOHNSON. 

 September 30, 1840. 



This may certify that I milked the above described 

 cow this whole season, and that the amount is cor- 

 rect and truly stated. 



NEHEMIAH JOHNSON. 



GEORGE SPOFFORDS STATE ]\IENT, 



To the Committee on Milch Cows. 



Gentlemen — My Durham cow calved the 4th day 

 of April last; the calf was kept on the cow five and 

 an half weeks, and was then sold for twenty five 

 dollars. The whole quantity of milk she gave from 

 the 15th day of May, to the 29th day of September 

 instant, weighed 3,900 pounds. The greatest quan- 

 tity in any one month, was 1,071 pounds, given in 

 June; the greatest in any one day, was 48^ pounds. 



The quantity of butter made from the first day of 

 June, to the 26th day of September, instant, was 127 

 pounds ; 43^ pounds of which was made in the month 

 of June, when no milk was taken for other uses. 

 From the first day of July, to the twenty sixth day 

 of September, three quarts of her milk was used, or 

 sold daily, for other purposes. 



Her keeping has been a common pasture, with six 

 quarts of shorts in two pails of water per day, to the 

 twenty sixth of August; since then she has had four 

 quarts of oat-meal in the same quantity of water per 

 day. Your ob't. servant, iifj^i v 



GEOKGE STOFFORp. 



Georgetown, September 30, 1840. 



