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AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



293 



short hours, I sliall undertake to ijive some exam- 

 ples of tlie produce of our native stock, which are 

 well vouched, a^id many of which have come 

 imder my own ohservation. They may serve at 

 least as matter of entertainment, if not of useful 

 instruction. 

 1. A cow owned by ('. Oakes, Dauvers, Mass., 



1816. 



In 1813, made ISO Ihs. butter. 



1814, " 300 " 



1815, " over 400 " " 



1816, " 484i " " 

 In one week this cow produced 19^ lbs. but- 

 ter, and averaged sixteen pounds per week 

 for more than three montlis. 



2. A cow owned by Nomse, Salem, Mass., 



1824, and afterwards by Col. Pickering. 



This cow made upwards of twenty pounds 

 one week, and averaged over fourteen pounds 

 per week for four months. 



3. Cow Wheeler, Framinghaui, Ms., 1821. 



Eleven ])ounds butter in one week. 13 

 beer quarts at one milking. 



4. Cow — N. Sanderson, Wallham, Mass., 1828. 



Thirteen and one half pounds butter per 

 week through the season,, on an average. 



5. Cow — John Barre, Salem, Blass., 1823. 



Average yield lor two hundred and sixty 

 eight days, 10} beer quarts per day. 



6. Cow — .John Stone, Marblehead, Mass., 1823. 



From June to October, averaged eleven 

 pounds of butter per week. 



7. Cow — Luke Fiske, Waltham, Mass., 1824. 



Made 12 pounds butter p> r week. 



8. Cow — Geo. H. Hardy, Waltham, Mass., 1S2G. 



Average, for four months, eleven pounds 

 and three quarters per week. 



9. Cow — Rev. Jno. White, Dedham, Mass., 1826. 



Gave 12 pounds butter six weeks in .suc- 

 cession — one week 12 lbs. 13 oz. — 3 months 

 averaged 10| lbs. per week — gave 18 qts. milk 

 per day at times. 



10. Cow — N. Pierce, Salem, Mass., 1826. 



3,528 qts. milk per year — nearly 10 qts. 

 per day. 



11. Cow — Jas. Robbins, Watertown, Mass., 1827. 



May and June, from 10 to 13 lbs. butter i 

 per week. 



12. Cow — Ralph Haskins, Dorchester, Mass., 1827. 



18 qts. per day — average 14 to 15 qts. Be- 

 fore grass feed in April, the cream of two 

 days made 2| lbs. butter, and was made from 

 2 1-16 qts. of cream. Two or three minutes 

 in churning. 



13. Two cows — Rev. John Phenix, Chicopee, 

 . Mass., 1828. 



For several weeks averaged 20 lbs. per 

 week, besides what milk and cream were 

 used in the family. 



14. Cow — E. Harris, Moorestown, N. J., 1829. 



32 qts. per day — supposed wine qts. — 

 feed, good pasturage. 



15. Cow — Jeremiah Stickney, Rowley, Ms.. 1829. 



19 qts. daily — calf, at six weeks old, 196 lbs. 

 gain 2 3-7 lbs. per day. 



16. Cow — W. Chase, Somerset, R. I., 1831. 



Most of the season 20 qts. of milk daily — 

 averaged nearly 14 lbs. of butter per week 

 during the season — 120 lbs. made in ten 

 weeks. 



17. Cow — Israel Graves, Northampton, IWass. 1830. 



Four years old — one week, 13 lbs. 9 oz. 

 butter. 



18 



20. 



21 



Cow — Isaac Osgood, Andovcr. Mass., 1831. 



17 quarts milk ])er day — 50 lbs. butter in 

 the month of June. 

 19. C^w — L. Ilosmer, Bedford, Mass., 1830. 

 14 lbs. of butter per week. 

 Heifer — 2-3 years old — L. Ilasseltine, Haver- 

 hill, Mass. 



14 lbs. of butter one week — 18d lbs. in lOi 

 days. 

 Cow — Saml. Noah, Danvers, Mass., 1831. 



In 148 days from 2d May, gave .5873 

 gallons milk — more than four gallons per day 

 beer measure. 



Cow — Timothy Flanders, Haverhill, Mass. 

 1832. 



From 20th April to 22d Sept., besides 46i 

 gallons milk for flimily use, made 163 lbs. 4 

 oz. butter. 

 Four cows — Jesse Putnam, Danvers, Mass., 

 1830. 



Averaged more than 200 lbs. butter each 

 in the season — highly fed. 

 Six cows — J. Curtis, Marblehead, Mass., 1830. 

 Average over 181 lbs. butter each, without 

 extra feed. 

 Cow — S. Sergeant, Stockbridgc, Mass., 1831, 

 From 8th April, 1828, 321 days, 381 lbs. 6 oz. 



23 



24 



25. 



16th 

 5th 



1829, 284 



1830, 306 



298 lbs. 1 oz. 

 318 lbs. 10 oz 



911 days, 943 lbs. 1 oz. 



The above is exclusive of 25 lbs. 9 oz. 



made while fattening 3 calves, and furnishing 



a family of four persons with milk and 



cream. 



26. Cow— ^W. Dickinson, Deerfield, Mass., 1830. 

 One week, 14 lbs. — first eight weeks after 



calf was taken away, made 96 lbs. Six 

 quarts of inilk made one pound of butter. 



27. Cow — H. G. Newcomb, Greenfield, Mass., 

 1830. 



From March 27th to fllay 25lh, made 100 

 pounds of butter, and reserved 160 qts. of 

 milk. 



In 14 days, made 29 3-16 lbs. of butter. 



28. Cow— D. Wait, Greenfield, Mass., 1830. 

 In one fortnight made 25 lbs. of butter. 

 In May, 1832, she produced in one week 



15J lbs. of butter. Average daily weight of 

 milk, 37 lbs. Measured one day 26 beer 

 quarts. 



29. Two Cows Hart. Shelburne, Mass, 1834. 



Besides milk and butter used for a family 



of 3 persons, they sold from these two cows 

 last season upwards of 400 lbs. butter — feed, 

 grass only. In June, she made in one week 

 23 lbs. — one week 25 lbs. — one week 28 lbs. 



80. Cow Barrett, Northampton, Mass., 1830. 



This cow milked, for one fortnight, every 

 eight hours — at each milking has yielded a 

 pailfid holding ten quarts — the weight of 

 the milk averaging daily 49i lbs. Her n)ilk 

 has yielded daily 2 lbs. 5 oz. butter — making 

 32 lbs. 6 oz. in 14 days. * From one milking 

 alone 1 lb. 6 oz. were made, which will sive 

 4 lbs. 2 oz. of butter in one day fromone 

 cow — the butter was of a superior quality, 

 and brought a high price in this market.-^ 



JVorthampton Courier, March, 1833. 



31. Cow owned in New-London, Conn., yielded 

 10 quarts milk per day for 14 successive 

 months. 

 For the 30th example I have only the authority 



quoted, which I have no leason to doubt. Most 

 of the others have been authenticated under oath : 

 and inost of the cows and owners I have seen. 



I have already, Mr Editor, extended this com- 

 munication to an inordiiuitc length. I shall leave 

 it for the prcscut, without farther comment; and 

 only add, in behalf of inysnlf and the whole ag- 

 ricultural public, that the respected and liberal 

 gentlemen, owners of the improved Durhain stock 

 will confer a great obligation, and add to their pa- 

 triotic services, if they will favor the public with 

 as exact and fidl statements, from tlioir own actual 

 experiments, of the dairy produce of their beauti- 

 ful and valuable animals. H. C. 



Mtadowbanlcs, Gth Feb. 1835. 



American Stone — a newly discovered Ce- 

 ment — Longinus never made a truer remark than 

 when he said a " democracy was the cradh; of 

 science." The unfltittered mind, expanding to its 

 utmost power of extension, under free laws and 

 institutions, developes powers that lie dormant and 

 repressed beneath the chains of a monarchy and 

 despotism. Discoveries and inventions are cVe- 

 ated in the combinations of thought, which seem 

 almost magical and supernatural compared with 

 the results of intellectual operations in govern- 

 ments of tbire. Our own country has demon- 

 strated the truth of these remarks in her Franklin, 

 her Fulton, Whitney, and many others, and in the 

 astonishing rapidity with which she has applied 

 and im])rovod upon almost every useful art. 



We now come to record another remarkable 

 invention, which has before been slightly alluded 

 to, but of which we can now, from olu- own per- 

 sonal observation of the specimens, and from fur- 

 ther information obta4ited from the inventor, spe.nk 

 in more j)ositive terms. Mr Obadiah Parker, a 

 native of New Hampshire, and for many years 

 past a respectable resident in Onondaga county, 

 in our state, and now in this city, has, after 

 numerous experiments, discovered a composition 

 stucco or cement — which from a state of liquid 

 mortar, hardens in a few days — say eight or ten. 

 into a solid substance or stone as impenetrable 

 almost as granite, and susceptible of a beautiful 

 polish. It is, apparently, chiefly of a calcareous 

 nature, or like the hardest kind of marble. Any 

 color may be given to it ; and it not only defies, 

 but actually acquires greater density and solidity, 

 and less brittlencss, under the changes of the at- 

 mosphere. He has obtained a series of patents 



and at Catskill, recently built, as a specimen, the 

 wall of a small edifice eight feet high, which in 

 eight days — recalling to mind the fable of Medu- 

 sa, was perfectly petrified with its doors, windows, 

 &c., all of which is testified to by the owner to 

 us personally, and by the certificates of the judges 

 of the county and the principal citizens of the 

 l)lace. It is impossible to foresee the consequences 

 of such a discovery. It surpasses, without doubt, 

 all other cements ; and the material is so cheap, 

 that entire houses, of any shape or dimensions, 

 fortifications, canals, aqueducts, &c., may be thug 

 built up in a few days, which would utterly super- 

 sede brick and stone, and effect a complete revo- 

 lution in architecture. What will not art yet 

 imitate and accomplish .= — J\t. Y. Star. 



One cubic foot of forged iron weighs 547 



pounds ; which is 6 pounds to 19 square inches 



3 square inches weigh almost a pound. 



