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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 43, 28 October 1867, Page 3

Remarkable Cow. —A correspondent in the ‘ Country Gentleman ’ gives an account of an astonishing yield of milk hy nn Ayrshire cow, bred and owned hy Mr S. Scammon, of Stratham, N.H. The writer of the communication from which we quote took considerable personal trouble to ascertain the facts of the case, and vouches for the correctness of the statements. The cow was “ of a pale yellow and girths 6 feet 3 inches.” The year that she was six years old Mr Scammon kept an “exact account” of the butter made from this remarkable cow, which amounted to CIO lb. 1 ler milk weighed 14,540 lb - —being almost 40 lb. per day through the year, and nearly 12 lb per week of butter through the year. Mr Scammon gives his cow good hay during the -winter, and generally 2 quarts of corn meal per day when she gives milk. In summer he gives her 4 quarts of meal per day till July, then decreases to 2 quarts, and after haying turns her out to grass, and gives no meal. lie also gives her green corn stalks in the season of them. He thinks the meal is principally useful in increasing the quality rather than the quantity of the milk. His two daughters, he says, milk this cow, “one on each side of her, with a large pail apiece.” ..