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MILCH KINE. 



ninth day of the same month, and for the next seven 

 days she gave three hundred and twelve pounds, being 

 an average of forty-four and four-sevenths pounds per 

 day. The first seven days in September she gave an 

 average of forty-two pounds per day. Keeping nothing 

 but pasture feed. Her milk is of the best quality. She 

 has never had any meal, grain or roots. The Society's 

 second premium was awarded me for her last year. 



DANIEL MESSINGER'S STATEMENT. 



HEIFER. 



The three-years-old heifer wdiich I offer for premium, 

 dropped her first calf on the 11th day of last April. 

 Sold the calf at three days old. Have measured her 

 milk from April 15th to September 15th. The result is 

 as follows : 



From April 15th, to June 15th, an average of twelve 

 and three-fifths quarts per day. From June 15th to July 

 1st, twelve quarts per day. From July 1st to July 15th, 

 ten and one-half quarts per day. From July 15th to 

 September 15th, nine and two-fifths quarts per day. 

 The weight of her milk the first week in June, two 

 hundred and fourteen and one-fourth pounds. The first 

 ■week in September, one hundred and fifty- one and 

 three-fourths pounds. My pasture being quite small 

 and insufficient to pasture one cow, was obliged to feed 

 with hay from the barn, and the last part of the time 

 some corn stalks. I think the quantity of milk would 

 have been much increased had she been turned to good 

 fall feed. From about two weeks previous to her calving 

 to the 15th September, have given her one bushel oatS; 



