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with her, but in this statement has been put down to 

 average the same as the next succeeding nine days and 

 this statement embraces ten months, or three hundred 

 and five days, and during that time she has given ten thou- 

 sand six hundred and sixty-five and three quarter pounds 

 of milk, making a daily average of 34|-|f pounds, ending 

 this day, and the milk is of a very uncommon rich qual- 

 ity, but has never been tried for butter, because no op- 

 portunity has offered, and her milk has been sold among 

 my neighbors daily. Her keeping has been from time 

 of calving, during the winter, half a bushel of carrots 

 each night and morning, with four pounds of shorts at 

 noon, with what second crop hay she would eat, and 

 since, during the summer, her feed has been very short, 

 and I have been obliged to feed her night and morning, 

 say about eight pounds of shorts per day, or its equiva- 

 lent. 



JOSEPH P. POND. 

 Salem, Sept. 16, 1844. 



WILLIAM CHASE'S STATEMENT. 



Milch cow, owned by William Chase, of Salem. Her 

 calf was taken from her, June 8th, 1844. For the re- 

 maining twenty-one days in June, she gave eight hun- 

 dred and ninety-nine lbs. of strained milk, being a small 

 fraction short of forty-three lbs. or a fraction more than 

 seventeen quarts per day. For three months commenc- 

 ing June 9th, she gave three thousand one hundred and 

 eighty-eight lbs., being an average of about thirty-five 

 lbs. or fourteen quarts per day. Her feed has been an 

 average of two quarts of meal and two of shorts per day' 

 with a poor pasture. 



Her former owner states that the quantity of milk 

 given by her last year in a good pasture, with no oth- 

 er feed, was considerably larger ; thereby showing the 

 advantage of a good pasture, for the want of which, 

 allowance should be made. Her milk is of the first 

 quality. 



