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bought in consequence of her superior quality as a milker, giv- 

 ing eighteen quarts a day, and averaging about fifteen. In the 

 month of April the cream of two days' milk produced two and 

 three-fourths pounds of butter, made of two and one-sixteenth 

 quarts of cream, and required but two minutes' churning. Thus 

 much for the mother of the Cream-Pots. 



" I have bred my Cream-Pots with red or mahogany colored 

 hair and teats, and gold-dust in the ears, yellow noses and skin, 

 the latter silky and elastic to the touch, being like a fourteen- 

 dollar cloth. My Cream-Pots are full in the body, chops deep 

 in the flank, not quite as straight in the belly, nor as full in the 

 twist, nor quite as thick in the thigh as the Durhams; but in 

 other respects like them. They excel in affording a great 

 quantity of rich cream, capable of being converted into butter 

 in a short time, with little labor, and with a very small propor- 

 tion of buttermilk, the cream producing more than eighty per 

 cent, of butter. I have changed the cream to butter not unfre- 

 quently in one minute, and it has been done in forty seconds." 



The late lamented Henry Colman. while Commissioner for 

 the Agricultural Survey of Massachusetts, wrote as follows : 



" Mr. Jaques is entitled to great credit for his care and judi- 

 cious selection in continuing and improving his stock. I have 

 repeatedly seen the crearn from his cows, and its yellowness 

 and consistency are remarkable, and in company with several 

 gentlemen of the Legislature, I saw a portion of it converted to 

 butter with a spoon in one minute. The color of Mr. Jaques' 

 stock is a deep red, a favorite color in New England ; they are 

 well formed and thrifty on common feed ; and if they continue 

 to display the extraordinary properties by which they are now 

 so distinguished, they promise to prove the most valuable race 

 of animals ever known among us for dairy purposes, and equal 

 to any of which w r e have any information." 



III.-POINTS. 



Were an ox of fine symmetry and high condition placed be- 

 fore a person not a judge of livestock, his opinion of its 



