36 ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 



CHARLES F. PUTNAM's STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Milch Cows. 



Gentlemen — The cow offered by me for premium 

 this day, was raised in Vermont, and is six years old. 

 She calved the twenty fifth of October, 1839, and 

 the calf was taken away November fourteenth. Her 

 feed, from the fifteenth November to May fifteenth, 

 has been English hay and one and an half peck of 

 sugar-beets per day. From May fifteenth to this 

 date, she has been in a very poor pasture, and has 

 had two quarts of Indian meal, or three quarts 

 ground oats, per day, with hay at night. I have 

 kept an exact account of the milk taken from her 

 at each milking since November fifteenth, and shall 

 furnish you with a copy; I shall also furnish the 

 expense of keeping, with the amount of sale of 

 milk. I should be pleased to continue the account 

 to complete the year, if it meets the views of the 

 committee. 



The cow is remarkably gentle, and her milk is of 

 very superior quality. Mr. James Holt, of Danvers, 

 sold me the cow; she was considered superior for 

 butter, having made in one week 10 lbs. 3 oz., with 

 her second calf She has had three calves, and will 

 calve again in March, 



I am very respectfully, yours, 



CHS. F. PUTNAM. 



Salem, Sept. 2Sth, 1840. 



Gentlemen — Having kept an accurate account of 

 the milk obtained from my cow, for which a premi- 



