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on the premises of a friend of his, and remained there 

 three weeks, made 19 Ibs. of hutter each week ; and the 

 fact was held so extraordinary, as to he thought worthy 

 of a memorandum in the parish books. The milk of the 

 Alderney Cow fits her for the situation in which she is 

 usually placed, and where the excellence of the article 

 is regarded, and not the expense. 



Lord Hampden, of Glynde, had a cow which in the 

 height of the season yielded ten pounds of butter and 

 twelve pounds of cheese every week, and yet her quan- 

 tity of milk rarely exceeded five gallons per day. The 

 next year the same cow gave nine pounds and a half of 

 butter per week for several weeks, and then for the rest 

 of the summer between eight and nine pounds per week ; 

 and until the hard frost set in, seven pounds ; and four 

 pounds per week during the frost. Yet as a proof of 

 the quality of the milk, she at no time gave more than 

 five gallons in the day. To this may be added that, 

 "four or five years before, the same person had a fine 

 black Sussex Cow from Lord Gage, which also gave, in 

 the height of the season, five gallons per day, but no 

 more than five pounds of butter were ever made from it." 

 This is accounted for in a singular way; for there is a 

 common opinion in the east of Sussex, that "the milk of 

 a black cow never gives so much butter as that of a 

 red one." 



MR. YOUATT'S PHILOSOPHY OF RABIES, OR MADNESS. 



In treating of Rabies, Youatt says : "When a rabid or 

 mad dog is wandering about, labouring under an irre- 

 pressible disposition to bite, he seeks out first of all his 

 own species ; but if his road lies by a herd of cattle, he 



