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teat ; the second week, two ; afterward, three. The calf was sold for 
nearly six dollars ; and in the mean time, milk to the amount of %l.75. 
Since that time I have realized for milk sold between fourteen and fif- 
teen dollars ; making the profit of the cow thus far, the present year, 
nearly twenty-three dollars, besides what I used in my own family, con- 
sisting of eight persons.” Dr. Woodward informed the editor of the 
same journal that he had a cow which, in the year 1844, gave one 
thousand and fifty gallons of milk, which, at four cents a quart, would 
amount to one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. He also had, on the 
Hospital Farm, Worcester, Massachusetts, several other cows nearly as 
good. And William Cushman, of New Braintree, in that state, says, 
July 14th, 1845 : “ I have a cow which has given, for ten days in June, 
from fifty-four and a half to sixty-three pounds of milk per day.” She 
was one-fourth of the Durham breed. 
Peter H. Schenck, formerly a merchant of New York, but having a 
country residence in Dutchess county, in October, 1 843, says : “ My 
cow Emma was nine years old last spring ; and till the summer of 1842 
I never kept her milk separate from that of three other cows I have. 
Then I made the experiment for one week, during which she gave 
eighteen quarts per day, and the milk made fifteen pounds of butter.” 
On the 21st of the following May — that is, 1843 — he renewed the ex- 
periment, and for the three weeks ensuing she made sixty-five and a 
half pounds of butter. On the 15th of June, that same year, the milk 
that came from her was churned by itself, and the butter weighed three 
pounds eight ounces. The next day her butter weighed three pounds 
four ounces. 
In 1843, a gentleman in the neighborhood of Troy, New York, says: 
“George Vail, Esq., of that city, was the owner of two cows only, one a 
full-blooded Durham, seven or eight years old, and the other four years 
old, seven-eighths Durham. He kept an accurate account of their milk 
and butter for thirty days. The result was as follows: one hundred 
and eight pounds of butter, besides supplying a family of five persons 
with new milk and cream for ordinary family use, and nine quarts of 
new milk daily for a calf. The average weight of milk per day, from 
the oldest cow, was sixty-eight pounds, and from the other, sixty pounds, 
during the thirty days. In the same year, Judge Walbridge, of Ithaca, 
in that state, had a cow that gave in the seven days ending June 24th, 
three hundred and ninety-five pounds ten ounces of milk, being an 
average of fifty-six and a half pounds per day, or twenty-eight and a 
half quarts per day. She had made two pounds one ounce per day, 
when two quarts of the milk were taken for family use. And the Rev. 
William Wisner, in the same neighborhood, had a cow, that in May of 
the same year made forty-seven pounds of butter, and supplied two 
families with new milk daily, during the time.” 
Among the more recent statistics of the dairy, the two following are 
selected. The first is from the Exeter News-Letter, which says: “Mr. 
Abraham Rowe, of Kensington, N. H., has a cow he raised from an 
Eastern breed, six years old, from which was made, between the 20th 
of May and the 20th of October, 1849, one hundred and fifty-six 
pounds of butter, averaging over one pound a day from pasture feed 
