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cious udder, and that she be a quiet milker. 

 This last is a matter of some consequence, 

 since it is not quite sufficient that a cow pro- 

 duce a large quantity of milk, unless she 

 will also render it quietly, and suffer you 

 to take it away. The sooner a cow is milk- 

 ed dry after purchase, the better, since 

 they are invariably stocked for sale ; that 

 is, their milk is suffered to remain perhaps 

 two days, in order to distend the udder to 

 the uteiost, byway of recommendation ; a 

 cruel and absurd trick, by which these ani- 

 mals are tortured, and many of them anni- 

 ally ruined, from inflammation of the milk 

 vein, and cormg of the distended parts. 



As to a CHOICE of BREEDS for a private 

 family, none in England, probably, com- 

 bine so many advantages as the Suffolk dun- 

 cows. They excel both in quantity and 

 quality of milk ; they feed well after they be- 

 come barren ; they are small-sized, and 

 polled or hornless ; the last a great conve- 

 nience. The horns of cows, which butt 

 and gore others, should be immediately 

 broad-tipped. There is a breed of polled 



