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after many years experience, states that his North Devon cows 

 will give an average of four pounds of butter per week, through 

 the year. One English pint of milk, as he adds, will produce 

 one ounce of butter ; that is, eight quarts will make a pound. I 

 give his statement ; but the case will obviously be affected by 

 the length of time which has elapsed from the calving of the 

 animal, by the mode of feeding, and whether it is of the milk 

 first or last drawn from the udder. The celebrated Danvers or 

 Oakes cow, in the United States, which made over four hundred 

 and eighty pounds of butter in a year, nineteen and one fourth 

 pounds in one week, and, within my knowledge, sixteen pounds 

 a week for more than three months, and another cow, also within 

 my knowledge, which produced three hundred and thirty-five 

 pounds per year, were evidently of the North Devon blood, though 

 not pretended to be pure. The first cross of the Durham with the 

 North Devon, as I have remarked, produces an excellent milking 

 progeny. Breeding for this object cannot be continued beyond 

 a first cross with any certainty of success. 



The Staffordshire long horns, a race which I have not de 

 scribed, but which have always been eminent as milkers, and 

 with which Bakewell began his celebrated improvements in stock, 

 have produced some excellent milkers, by being crossed with 

 the Hereford stock. Two of these animals, owned by a friend, 

 an excellent manager of his little farm, as well as a most highly 

 esteemed clergyman, in Worcestershire, two characters not un- 

 frequently united, produced twenty-five pounds of butter per 

 week. 



The Kerry cows, of Ireland, not the very small stock referred 

 to page 178, vol. i., are greatly valued for their milking proper 

 ties. Three of these cows, at a milk establishment near Cork, 

 it was stated to me, yielded twenty-one gallons per day, or twenty- 

 eight quarts each. This was at Blarney Castle, but T. did not 

 receive it as &quot; blarney.&quot; It was stated to me, on respectable 

 authority, that a reverend gentleman in the county of Kerry 

 had, the previous year, as the produce of five cows, sent to Liver 

 pool twenty-five firkins of butter, of sixty-four pounds each, which 

 would be equal to three hundred and twenty pounds per cow. 

 The cows were fed most liberally upon mangel-wurzel. If there 

 be no mistake in the size of the firkin, this is certainly a most 

 extraordinary yield. 

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