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My Cream-Pot breed excel particularly in affording a great quantity 

 of rich cream, and that cream capable of being formed into butter in 

 a short time, and with little labor, leaving a small proportion of but- 

 termilk. Their cream produces more than eighty per cent, of pure 

 butter ; and it is not infrequent to form the cream into butter in one 

 minute. It has been done in forty seconds. 



" I have a heifer designated as Betty Cream-Pot, one of the third 

 generation, which produced her first calf at two and a half years old. 

 Mr. Brown, my foreman, made the following experiment upon her 

 milk, without my knowledge at the time. After milking, he took two 

 quarts of her milk out of the pail, and having strained it into a pan, 

 allowed it to stand twenty-four hours. Having then skimmed the 

 cream into a bowl, he churned it with a table spoon ; and in one 

 minute, by the clock, he formed the butter. It was then pressed and 

 worked in the usual way, and amounted to half a pound of pure but- 

 ter. After this the following practice was pursued for eight or ten 

 weeks in succession. At each of four successive milkings, two 

 quarts of the strippings were strained into a pan, making eight quarts 

 in the whole. All was mixed together in the same pan, and then 

 churned. The average time of churning did not exceed ten min- 

 utes ; in some instances the butter was formed in five min- 

 utes. After being properly worked over, it was weighed and never 

 fell short of two pounds. The remainder of her milk was for family 

 use, and, when set for cream, produced the usual quantity. These 

 experiments were made on grass feed only. She did not give a 

 large mess ; only about twelve quarts per day. I have forty cows 

 and heifers, ten bulls and bull calves of different grades of this cream- 

 pot breed, all bred and raised by myself. I keep my bulls, selected 

 as breeders, until I have proof of the quality of their offspring. My 

 old cream-pot bull is ten years old. My Don Cream-Pot, from 

 which I am now breeding with some of my cows and heifers, is three 

 years old." 



It will be seen, that Mr. Jaques speaks with all the enthusiasm of 

 an amateur. I cannot endorse, certainly to their full extent, all liis 

 doctrines respecting the power of breeding at pleasure, any animals 

 of any desired shape or color, and of forming them as a statuary 

 would mould his plaster ; but the approaches, which a scientific and 

 experienced breeder can make to such a power as this are very con- 

 siderable, as all the improved races of animals show, whether among 

 neat cattle, horses, sheep or swine. 



