THE "OAKS COW."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 18 March 1882, Page 2

THE "OAKS COW."

. The most wonderful native, American record is that ; of;-.tho .".Oaks Cow;" ; so- ; .called.^ wipuer,- of.the first prehiiuji'for .milch,eows. at tho Massachusetts' 'State: Fair in 1816,' '■■. '. This cow" waß ; 'bred' iri : .Kennebec pounty, Maine, and was bought' •from a drove m its way to Brighton roar? ket,- near Boston, 1813, by a 'Masßachii.' setts'farmer, from whom the cow was named. Phe was. then; about. five, years' ,old, and; Her 'fame as' a'milker having reached the oflicors of the State ~Soojaty, the trial was made under,its supervision .'- '.She calved; May 15th, 1815, and' for 31 weeks .averaged 161bs of .butter ■ with q total of 5811bs in nine months, wheii she ; went dry, .February, 1816. ''-'She'wail'fresh again', April sth, 1816, and in 25 weeks made 4801bs of butter, beiid.es' suckling a.Mf.pr.fiv.9 weeks.-, Theifair; theu occurrpdf abdlhVrecortl' cMse'sVjlM this coiv must have"'produced' : pf' butter in that year. Her teed during the! whole trial was the best of,' grass or llay,'! and all her own okiin milk, Ihiokened" with flbs of Indian meal a-, day;, her greatest.yietd in on.e gi\y ji»asU4£lbi of milk, not large. None of her calves proved remarkable milkers. tt\ •-{ ft.)