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Such great milkers must necessarily afford 

 but a thin fluid, not so well adapted to the but- 

 ter-dairy, as to the sale of the milk, except- 

 ing with respect to that material branch of 

 the dairy business, pig-feeding. The signs 

 of productiveness of milk in the cow are 

 generally — " a thin head and neck, clean 

 chaps, free from leather, deep, and rather 

 flat carcase, wide hips, the bones per- 

 haps inclined to be pointed, capacious ud- 

 der, and large plain milk- vein ; the last two 

 signs worth all the rest." Nexv Fa7iner\s' 

 Calendar. 



The next considerations for a private 

 buyer are, selection, and the means 

 within his power to make it. These will 

 depend materially on his situation, and whe- 

 ther his aim be to obtain something capital 

 in this way, or to be content with the choice 

 ofi'ered him by the markets or fairs of his 

 vicinity. In the former case, his only me- 

 thod is recourse to some salesman or jobber, 

 in w^hom he can depend, to supply him 

 with a milch beast of the highest reputed es- 

 tablished breed, for which he must expect 



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