444 Mr. TVhite on the Natural Hi/lory of the Cow. 
a much greater quantity of food to extraCt the 
fame nourifhment. 
A Cow’s udder is fo capacious, that it frequent¬ 
ly contains ten quarts of milk, which it will 
yield twice a day; and it is not only remarkable 
for its quantity, but its quality, as fome cows 
will afford twelve or fourteen pounds of butter 
in a week. The fize and form of the teats ap¬ 
pear, at the firft fight, as if they were made on 
purpofe for the hand to draw off the milk. But 
this is not the only advantage they poffefs; the 
thicknefs permits the lactiferous tubes to be of a 
larger diameter, and the length of them makes 
the fyphon fo much longer, and the extraction of 
the milk of courfe fo much more eafy. 
The cow having four teats is a ftriking peculi¬ 
arity, the number in all other animals, bearing 
fome proportion to the number of young ones,, 
they bring forth at a time, as in the bitch, the 
cat, the fow, &c. But the Cow does not bring 
forth, at a birth, more young ones, than thofe 
animals who have but two teats. 
The Cow will yield her milk to the hand as 
freely, and will continue to give her milk for 
as long a time, without any calf coming near 
her, as if it were permitted to fuck her con- 
ftantly. This is not the cafe with the afs, which, 
next to the Cow, is the animal we are moft 
accuftomed to have milked in this part of the 
world, 
