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do not give large quantities ; the milk is not rich in butter prop 

 erties. Now I shall contradict this by some examples, but they, 

 I believe, are the exceptions, and not the rule. A Durham or 

 short-horn cow, owned in Cambridgeshire, made sixteen pounds 

 of butter one week, and at the rate of fourteen for a considerable 

 length of time. I have found several that made twelve pounds 

 and fourteen pounds of butter, a week. These, however, are rare 

 instances. Mr. Bates informed me, that one of Mr. Collins s cows 

 gave at one milking, at night, tAventy-six and a half quarts ; an 

 other gave twenty-four quarts of milk per day : another, nine 

 teen quarts. I did not understand him to make these statements 

 of his own knowledge. His own celebrated cow Duchess gave 

 fourteen quarts at a milking. These are all animals of high 

 blood ; but it is the general experience of the keepers of such 

 animals, that their qualities for milk are inferior. Mr. Bates 

 informed me, these were beer quarts. Wine to beer measure is 

 as about four to five. 



The Yorkshire or Teeswater cows, from which the improved 

 Durham are derived, are large milkers. It is an evidence of this, 

 that most of the cows kept in the London milk establishments 

 are the Yorkshire. They are, in general, very large animals, and 

 their size for fattening, when their milking is over, strongly 

 recommends them. In condition, they are variable, a cow giv 

 ing large quantities of milk seldom showing high condition ; 

 though even this is not without exceptions. It is rare, however, 

 in any case, to find them in low condition. At a large milk 

 establishment in Edinburgh, kept by a woman, she told me that 

 she had owned a Teeswater or Yorkshire cow, which had given 

 twenty-two Scotch pints, or forty-four quarts, of milk, per day. 

 I was assured of this woman s credibility; but then, with a per 

 fect respect for the conscientiousness and good intentions of 

 the sex, I habitually distrust their arithmetical accuracy, whether 

 in regard to their own age, if they are far on the journey of life, 

 or to other matters. It is not in their way to remember num 

 bers exactly. The great astronomer, Mrs. Somerville, is a rare 

 and magnificent exception. 



At a London milk establishment which I have repeatedly 

 visited, the yield in milk is chalked upon a board, over the head 

 of each cow. Most of them are of the Yorkshire breed. I ob 

 served, in my last visit, one yielding twelve quarts per day, one 



