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of the constituents essential to the production 

 of milk in their food. My cow Patience," he 

 continues, "bred by Mr. J. Y. Cook, Moreton 

 House, Hereford, has this summer given four- 

 teen pounds of butter per week, and Blossom, 

 bred by the late Mr. Longmore, Salop, gave 

 twenty-twoquarts of milk,yieldingtwo and one- 

 half pounds of butter per day, equal to seven- 

 teen and one-half pounds of butter per week." 

 The same correspondent says : "1 consider the 



Herefords are particularly adapted to this 

 hurnid, fickle climate, where Devons become 

 small and delicate and Shorthorns grow long 

 and coarse." This statement of butter, seven- 

 teen and one-half pounds, is somewhat e.xtraor- 

 dinary, but I know Mr. Duckham to be a gentle- 

 man of veracity, who would not state anything 

 to the public but what he knows to be true. 



Wm. H. Sotham. 

 Detroit, Nov. 20, 1870. 



C. M. CULBERTSON. NEWMAN. ILL. 

 (First President American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation.) 



