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It is understood, that no extra feed is in tliis case given to the cow ; 

 and the butter and milk used in the family, it is supposed, will fully pay 

 for the attendance. This is a fair profit ; but it is, as I think, we 

 shall presently see, much less than it should be. No animal is better 

 entitled to good keeping than a cow ; because none makes a more lib- 

 eral return for all the extra kindness and feed and attention bestowed 

 on her. 



In another dairy, nine cows made 1550 lbs. of butter, and 300 lbs. 

 of clieese. 



Another dairy of twenty cows produced, — of butter, 500 lbs.; of 

 new milk cheese, 4000 lbs. 



In this town, two acres of land are deemed sufficient for pasturing 

 a cow or fatting a steer. Twenty head of cattle, made up of cows 

 and three year old steers, were fatted upon thirty acres of land. 



The subject of dairy-produce is of such importance, that I shall 

 give various returns and calculations. I omit names ; I should be 

 glad to give them, and in a majority of cases it might not be disap- 

 proved ; but a fear of giving offence, or of being thought to take an 

 improper liberty, or of interrupting that freedom of communicaiion, 

 which I wish should subsist between myself and the farmers, and 

 which seems indispensable to the success of the survey. Induces me to 

 withhold them, save where permission has been explicitly granted, or 

 the nature of the case renders it obviously proper. Tiie statements, 

 which I give, rest upon undoubted authority. 



2. In Otis. — Twenty cows gave 5000 lbs. new milk cheese, for 

 sale ; each averaging also 25 lbs of butter ; 600 lbs. of cheese were 

 also used in the family. 



Cow, Cr., 



280 lbs. cheese, at 8 cts., .... 5^22 40 



25 " butter, at 20 cts., . . . 5 00 



Calf, .... . 4 GO 



Pork, 26 lbs. at 6 cts., . . 1 56 



$32 96 



