710 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



the food and treatment; and that by suitable means you can pro- 

 duce as much and as I'ich butter in winter as in summer. ^^ This is 

 a very important consideration, deserving the careful examination 

 of every dairyman interested in the production of butter. 



The treatment of grass lands, the time of cutting and securing 

 the hay, are fully described; and some very important facts are 

 developed by the manner in which Mr. H. conducts his operations, 

 botli on his meadows and his permanent pastures. 



Directions are given as to cows liable to the milk fever, a dis- 

 ease not unfrequent among cows in good condition, and which of- 

 ten proves fatal. 



We consider the whole of the annexed article one deserving the 

 careful study of all of our farmers interested in the dairy business, 

 or wlio are fattening cattle for market. It aims to give the actual 

 cost of all the operations — a matter of vital interest to every one 

 to know — as upon the side on which the balance is found depends 

 entirely the failure or success of the business. 



While in some respects the treatment of Mr. H. may be more 

 specially beneficial in Great Britain, still the principles elucidated 

 and established are of general application, and cannot prove other- 

 wise than useful, wherever the dairy is an object of interest, as 

 in this country. 



Mr. Horsfall — " Towards the close of July, 1856, and during the 

 warm weather of August, my cows, whilst in pasture by day and 

 housed during the night, were attacked by tliat unwelcome visitor 

 the pleuro-pneumonia, which affected the majority of them, and con- 

 tinued with little intermission till the close of December. Though 

 by treatment which I purpose to describe, nearly all have been 

 restored, yet it is not without more or less damage to the lung — 

 an organ essential to the due performance of every function of 

 the animal, and exercising especial influence on the respiratory 

 process, and the carbonaceous or fatty products. 



" In the course of my experience, I have ascertained that cattle, 

 whose lungs have been damaged by a pre nous attack of pleuro 

 or other cause, are deficient in their store of loose fat, in com- 

 parison with what their touch, appearance, and the length of 

 time they have been feeding, would lead one to expect. To the 

 same cause I am disposed to attribute the somewhat lessened pro-^ 

 portion of butter to milk and to cream, during the present, com- 



