Dominick Thompson's Jersey cow, on the twentieth of June, gave thirteen quarts and one pint of milk. The same weighed twenty-nine pounds and twelve ounces, and yielded one pound and fourteen ounces of butter. September 20, the yield of milk was nine quarts, weighing nineteen pounds and five ounces, and yielding one pound and three ounces of butter. From one quart of the last of her milk, for five milkings put together, making five quarts of milk, was made one pound one and onehalf ounces of butter. Israel Whitcomb's grade cows "Lady Simmons," one-half Jersey, one-half native, and "Minnie," seven-eighths Jersey and one-eighth native, made together, in the month of April, ten pounds of butter; May, forty-five pounds three ounces; June, ninety-six pounds fourteen ounces; July, seventy-nine pounds ten ounces; August, sixty-eight pounds four ounces; September, sixty-seven pounds ten ounces; making a total of three hundred and sixty-one pounds nine ounces from April 17 to September 30. Each of the cows had calves in April, which were furnished with new milk until they were five weeks old, which accounts for the limited quantity of butter in April and May. HINGHAM. From the Report of the Committee. When we consider the importance and the demand for the best stock that can be furnished, with a view to an increasing want for a breed of cows for the dairy, which shall be great producers of milk, of a quality rich in nutriment and abounding in the elements that make cheese and butter, we shall duly estimate the efforts of those who have entered upon a course of experiments to test the merits of the several breeds of cows, the most celebrated in those countries of Europe where especial means have been employed for many years to obtain these results. Whether these foreign breeds of cattle are to supersede the ill-bred common stock which for more than two centuries has been raised among us, and which has become inured to our soil and climate, is one of the results these experiments must work out. In the mean time the increased demand and the high price of all promising cattle of the imported breeds make it an object, in a pecuniary point of view, for the farmer, Dominick Thompson's Jersey cow, on the twentieth of June, gave thirteen quarts and one pint of milk. The same weighed twenty-nine pounds and twelve ounces, and yielded one pound and fourteen ounces of butter. September 20, the yield of milk was nine quarts, weighing nineteen pounds and five ounces, and yielding one pound and three ounces of butter. From one quart of the last of her milk, for five milkings put together, making five quarts of milk, was made one pound one and onehalf ounces of butter. Israel Whitcomb's grade cows "Lady Simmons," one-half Jersey, one-half native, and "Minnie," seven-eighths Jersey and one-eighth native, made together, in the month of April, ten pounds of butter; May, forty-five pounds three ounces; June, ninety-six pounds fourteen ounces; July, seventy-nine pounds ten ounces; August, sixty-eight pounds four ounces; September, sixty-seven pounds ten ounces; making a total of three hundred and sixty-one pounds nine ounces from April 17 to September 30. Each of the cows had calves in April, which were furnished with new milk until they were five weeks old, which accounts for the limited quantity of butter in April and May. HINGHAM. From the Report of the Committee. When we consider the importance and the demand for the best stock that can be furnished, with a view to an increasing want for a breed of cows for the dairy, which shall be great producers of milk, of a quality rich in nutriment and abounding in the elements that make cheese and butter, we shall duly estimate the efforts of those who have entered upon a course of experiments to test the merits of the several breeds of cows, the most celebrated in those countries of Europe where especial means have been employed for many years to obtain these results. Whether these foreign breeds of cattle are to supersede the ill-bred common stock which for more than two centuries has been raised among us, and which has become inured to our soil and climate, is one of the results these experiments must work out. In the mean time the increased demand and the high price of all promising cattle of the imported breeds make it an object, in a pecuniary point of view, for the farmer, |