42 ON MILCH COWS. 



JOSHUA HALE'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Milch Cows : 



Gentlemen — The cow which I offer for exhibition is 

 seven years old. She calved the 22d of March last, and 

 gave milk up to the time of her calving. I sold her calf 

 at three weeks old. She made two pounds of butter per 

 week, on an average, while suckling her calf. The calf 

 weighed 17 pounds the quarter. During the month of 

 June, her milk averaged in weight forty pounds per day. 

 In the same month 1 sold and used 22 1-2 gallons of milk 

 from her, and she made in the same time forty pounds of 

 butter. Her keeping was a fair pasture, and no other 

 feed. Since the month of June the pasture has been 

 very much dried, and she has never had anything except 

 from the pasture. She has averaged 28 lbs. of milk per 

 day since. Her winter feeding was meadow hay and 

 stalk butts, and no grain or roots of any kind, and not 

 more than 3 cwt. of English hay. 



All which is respectfully submitted, 



JOSHUA HALE. 



Rowhij, Sept. 28th, 1841. 



GEORGE SPOFFORD'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Milch Cows : 



Gentlemen — The cow which I offer for exhibition 

 was two years old last spring. She was brought from the 

 northerly part of the Canadas, and was purchased from 

 the Indians. She calved the 25th day of March last, 

 and her calf was taken off the fourteenth day of May. 

 Her milk contains an uncommon quantity of cream. I 

 have weighed it from week to week during the summer, 

 and she has given on an average about fourteen pounds 

 of milk daily, having never exceeded 19 pounds, and 

 never fallen short of 10 pounds per day— so that the 



