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to him, whose dam was in her thirty-second year, and 

 could not be said to have been properly out of milk for 

 the preceding fifteen years. 



Yorkshire Cows, which are those chiefly used in the 

 London Dairies, give a very great quantity of milk. It 

 is by no means uncommon for them, in the beginning of 

 the Summer, to yield thirty quarts a day ; there are rare 

 instances of giving thirty-six quarts ; but the average 

 measure may be estimated at twenty-two or twenty-four 

 quarts. 



Alderney Cow, after Howitt. 



BUTTER. 



The Alderney Cow, considering its voracious appetite, 

 yields very little milk ; that milk, however, is of an ex- 

 traordinary excellent quality, and gives more butter than 

 can be obtained from the milk of any other cow. John 

 Lawrence states that an Alderney Cow that had strayed 



