62 ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 



WARREN AVERILl's STATEMENT. 



To the Commitlce on Cows and Heifers : 



Gentlemen, — I offer for your inspection my cow Flora, of na- 

 tive breed, six years old. The said cow calved on the 21st of last 

 April. The calf was kept to her until the 13th day of May. With 

 what milk the calf left, and all after taking the calf from her until the 

 20th of May, we made 20 lbs. 8 oz, of butter. Beginning at the 20th 

 of May, we kept an account of the milk by weight, morning and 

 night, for the four months following, which is 4,375 lbs. Butter 

 from said milk, 211 lbs. 2 ounces. From the 20th of May to the 

 last day of June, inclusive, 84 lbs. 2 ounces. In July, 52 lbs. In 

 August 43 lbs. Twenty days in September, 32 lbs. 2 ounces. vSaid 

 cow would have risen 35 lbs. in September, had she not met with an 

 accident by getting one of her teats jammed on the 14th, in conse- 

 quence of which we did not use the milk from that quarter of the 

 bag for butter. The first fourteen days in September she made 

 24 lbs. From the 20th of May to the last day of June, she gave 

 1,597 lbs. of milk ; in July, 1,115 lbs. ; August, 987 lbs. ; twenty 

 days in September, 676 lbs. Average through the four months per 

 day, 35 lbs. 105-122. To July, 39 lbs. 37-40 ; July 36 lbs. ; Au- 

 gust 32 lbs. ; September 33 16-20. Average on the butter to 

 July, 19 lbs. In July 21 23-52 ; August, 22 41-43 ; Sept. 21 lbs. 

 4-32, Through the season, four months, 20 lbs. 155-211. 



Manner of keeping said cow. After she calved, I commenced 

 giving her two quarts of meal per day, until the last day of May. 

 The 20th day of May, I put her to pasture by herself Her pasture 

 was good through June ; the first week in July it failed, so I took 

 her out and put her in an old pasture with other cows for three 

 weeks, to let ray pasture grow. I then put her back again in my 

 pasture and kept her until the 24th day of August, when I put her 

 with another cow in new feed. I commenced giving her, the 30th 

 of August, one quart of Indian meal and one quart of rye meal every 

 night. She had no meal, roots or any thing, only what the pasture 

 afforded, from the first day of June until the thirtieth day of August. 



WARREN AVERILL. 

 Ipswich, September 23, 1845. 



