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pasture until August, then corn fodder, and now a few pump- 

 kins. 



E. S. PARKER. 

 Groveland, Sep. 29, 1862. 



STATEMENT OF WARREN AVERILL. 



To the Committee on Milch Cows : — 



Gentlemen — The cow I oifer for premium is eight years old, 

 and Native breed. She calved the 10th day of March last, 

 and is now with calf again. Before going to pasture, and 

 after the calf was taken from her, she gave from 16 to 17 

 quarts of milk per day ; once a day she had chopped feed with 

 meal and shorts, some days a few potatoes, balance hay. After 

 going to pasture a few days, I commenced milking three times 

 a day. In the morning she would give 9 quarts, at noon, 6 , 

 and about the same at night, varying a little, of course, from 

 this, but from 20 to 21 quarts until the 1st of July. I did not 

 keep a daily account of her milk ; for I had no idea of sending 

 her here to this show. After this she gradually fell away in 

 her milk. In August, the latter part, she gave 18 quarts a 

 day, and now she gives 14 quarts a day. She has had but one 

 pasture through the season, and that has been good, until the 

 month past rather dry, so I fed her at the barn at night. She 

 has had one quart of meal every night, which I think essential 

 to keep up her flesh ; as without it, giving so much milk would 

 cause her to fall away in flesh. 



Her butter was weighed every time we churned, in 1-2 

 pound balls. From the 20th of May to the past week she 

 made 192 pounds, besides supplying my own and one of my 



