64 Colour no object — Cow-house. 



Yorkshire or Holdemess cows, some of 

 them of middling size, great milkers, and 

 well adapted to the use of families, where 

 a great quantity of milk is required, and 

 where price is no object, and food in plenty. 

 If richer milk and a comparison of the two 

 famous breeds be desired, one of each may 

 be selected, namely, the last mentioned, and 

 the other of the Midland county, or long- 

 horned species. Colour is so far no object, 

 that neither a good coxv nor a good horse 

 can be of a bad colour ; nevertheless, in an 

 oraamental view, the sheeted and pied stock 

 of Yorkshire short-horns, make a pictu- 

 resque figure in the grounds. The Alder- 

 ney cows yield rich milk, but are seldom 

 large milkers, and I believe, are particu- 

 larly scanty of produce in the winter sea^ 

 son. They are, besides, worth little or 

 nothing as barreners, not only on account 

 of their small size, but their inaptitude to 

 take on fat, an'd the ordinary quality of 

 their beef. 



It is pre-supposed that a dry and com- 

 fortable COW-HOUSE has been provided, con- 



