256 Keep "^Quality of Milk — Difficulties, 



answered, but by aid of the most ample 

 supply, even to satiety, of nutritious and 

 succulent victuals ; not that according to 

 the absurd notions of many persons, keep 

 regulates and equahzes milking, be the breed 

 whatever it may, since in some breeds, 

 the keep turns to milk, in others to beef; 

 but because the truest and largest milker 

 will Tcry soon lose that precious faculty, 

 without proportionate, that is to say, high 

 feeding. Keep short and meanly, and 

 your milk and butter produce will be in 

 exact proportion, and the cow when dry, 

 emaciated and of little worth. A farmer 

 some years since, kept eighteen cows upon 

 a common; and was often obliged to buy 

 butter for his family. The common was 

 inclosed, and the same person supplied his 

 family amply with milk and butter, from the 

 produce of four cows well kept. Great 

 milkers, indeed, seldom carry any flesh upon 

 their bones, and are perhaps as seldom made 

 fat, but they pay as they go, and never re- 

 tire in your debt. The difficulties in cow- 

 keeping are these — the expence of their 



