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She was purchased by the Experiment Station in 1894 from Mr. L. S. Drew, 

 Burlington, Vermont, late president of the Ayrshire Breeders' Association, 

 She has had seven full years at the station. Her milk yield has ranged from 

 6,068 pounds to 9,161 pounds-, and averaged 7,946 pounds. Her butter yield 

 has ranged from 288 to 416, and has averaged 362 pounds. The quality 

 of her milk has been quite uniform, and is on the average for the seven years 

 3.90 per cent. She is a typical Ayrshire, has perhaps rather more of the 

 dark red and less of the white than the generality of the Ayrshires of late 

 years, is a hearty feeder and has made a pound of milk cheaply, and a pound 

 of butter at medium prices. The average cost of her food yearly has been 



NANCY B. 9,581 A. R. AYRSHIRE COW. 



Average Yearly Record for Seven Years, 7,946 Pounds Milk, 362 Pounds Butter. 

 (Somewhat out of condition and nearly dry when photographed.) 



$54.57; of purchased grain $20.19; and of the sales of her butter, at prices 

 varying from 23 to 27 cents a pound, $91.73. The price for food has been 

 reckoned from prices paid for grain in the several years, allowing $9 to 

 $10.50 a ton for hay, and $3 a ton for silage and soiling crops; $5 a year 

 for a season's pasturage per animal. The prices for roughages, it will be 



