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exact record, gave 4018 pounds 14 ounces of milk. The largest 

 yield in any one day, was 76 pounds 5 ounces, {35li quarts.) 

 In ten days, she gave 744 pounds 12 ounces, or an average 

 of 74 ^\ pounds per day. She gave a good flow of milk 

 during the season, continuing to the 24th of May following, 

 and on the succeeding day dropped twin heifer calves, which 

 weighed 155 pounds. The amount of cream produced from this 

 cow s milk, in a vessel specially prepared for measuring it, pro- 

 duced 22 j^% per cent of the milk, as tested by an accurate 

 exammation. The nutritive qualities of the milk were also 

 tested by a thorough chemical analysis, and found to be excellent. 

 It was also rich in its caseine, or cheese making properties. Six 

 days' milk of this cow were set for cream, and the produce was 

 17 pounds 14 ounces of good butter — nearly 3 pounds per day; 

 and it is claimed by her owner that she is not the very best cow 

 of the herd. 



These results show not only the remarkable productions of 

 the cow, but the accurate and pains-taking care of the proprietor 

 of the herd, in testing their ability at the pail. Of what the 

 food given to the cow was composed, we are not informed. We 

 are to presume, however, it was of the best, as every cow should 

 have, to test to the utmost, her lacteal faculties. 



FOE THE DAIRY, 



The qualities of the Holsteins must be acknowledged as remark- 

 able. The short-horns, as in many instances of trial, have 

 hitherto acknowledged no superior; yet they have now, in these 

 new strangers to our soil, to say the least, found most formidable 

 competitors, and an opportunity is here offered, by those who 

 cultivate them for the dairy, to test their long acknowledged 

 good qualities by comparison. The Holsteins have been long bred 

 and cultivated with a view to develop their lacteal production to 

 the utmost ; and that they are quick feeders, and physiologically 

 constituted to turn their food readily to milk, must be evident. 



