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STATEMENT OF WM. A. RUSSELL. 



To the Committee on Herds of Milch Cows : 



I enter for herd of milch cows : Holstein-Fresian cows? 

 "Maud Clay," No. 390; "Lady Shepard," No. 1586; 

 "Belle Fairfax," No. 1117 ; "Jacoba Alexander," No. 4437, 

 and "Emma Bess," No. 9715. 



"Maud Clay" calved Aug. 30, 1890. "Lady Shepard" 

 calved Aug. 30, 1890. "Belle Fairfax" calved Jan. 25, 

 1890; is due Feb. 3, 1891. "Jacoba Alexander" calved 

 Dec. 29, 1889 ; is due Feb. 2, 1891. "Emma Bess" calved 

 Aug. 3, 1889 ; is due Oct. 15, 1890. 



Maud Clay's milk record, from Sept. 2nd to the 20th, 

 inclusive, is 1066 lbs. ; for the season of 1888-9, 14,055 

 lbs. 



Lady Shepard's milk record, from Sept. 1st to 20th, 

 inclusive, is 1206 lbs. milk ; and from Sept. 1, 1889, to 

 June, 1890, 12,274 lbs.; from Sept. 1, 1888, to June, 1889, 

 13,168 lbs. 



Belle Fairfax's milk record, from Feb. 1 to Sept. 1, 1890, 

 is 10,027 lbs. ; from Jan. 1 to Dec, 1889, 15,157 lbs. ; 

 from Sept. 1, 1887 to Sept. 1, 1888, 14,500 lbs. 



Jacoba Alexander's milk record, from Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, 

 1890, is 10,578i lbs. 



Emma Bess' milk record, from Sept. 1, 1889, to Sept. 1, 

 1890, is 8,672 lbs. 



The summer feed of these cows has been pasture which 

 is small for the number of cows kept, but it has an 

 abundant supply of pure water, and plenty of shade trees ; 

 and they have been fed with 2 qts. gluten meal and 2 qts. 

 shorts in morning, and with 2 qts. corn meal in evening, 

 with dry hay or corn fodder twice a day. 



The winter feed consists of ensilage (corn) feed in morn- 

 ing, and good English hay feed in afternoon, with 4 qts. 

 bran and 2 qts. meal fed with the ensilage, and same quan- 

 tity of grain fed dry, before giving them the hay, in after- 

 noon ; and watered twice a day in the barn, and carded and 

 brushed once a day. Those cows giving a heavy flow of 

 milk are milked three times a day, and fed grain three 



