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( kind. The race is known as the Cimmenthal ; and undoubtedly 

 great pains have been taken in their selection and management. 

 I am at a loss to state the amount of milk given, or butter 

 produced, by these cows, because I do not know the capacity of 

 the Swiss measure ; but they are evidently deep milkers, and as 

 well as I could understand, they give from sixteen to twenty- 

 eight quarts of milk per day, and about two hundred pounds of 

 butter by the year. These cows were reported to me to weigh 

 from seven hundred to twelve hundred pounds ; they were 

 exceedingly broad and round ; short and fine in the leg ; in high 

 condition, and extremely well covered ; and in their whole 

 appearance excelled by none which I have seen. I saw many 

 of these fine animals for sale in the cattle-market at Berne. 



There is another kind in Switzerland, which may be called 

 the mountain cow, because I found them principally in the most 

 hilly districts of the country. These were a small-sized animal, 

 of beautiful form, small limbs, exceedingly light of foot, evidently 

 fitted to climb hills and precipices, and with eyes as bright as 

 those of a gazel, and not unlike a deer in their movements. 

 These cows did not promise much in milk. 



2. GOATS. In Switzerland, I found in the mountainous 

 districts large herds of goats, which are brought down from the 

 mountains at night to be milked, and sent away again at daylight 

 in the morning. Many small families keep one goat in their 

 stables to supply the family with milk. They give about one 

 pint of very rich and delicious milk each per .day ; sometimes 

 more. Among the mountaineers of Ireland, near the lakes of 

 Killarney, I found many families keeping goats for their milk : 

 one family having as many as thirty. These were kept for the 

 comfort and luxury of travellers, who visited these wild and 

 picturesque regions. They are kept at a small expense, and 

 were it not for their wandering and mischievous propensities, a [ 

 milch goat would be a treasure in the family of a poor man.y 

 They might easily be fed upon the waste vegetables of a poor 

 man s garden or his frugal table ; though in most of the poor 

 families in Europe there are other mouths who claim first to be 

 satisfied, and leave little waste of any kind. The milk of goats 

 is rich, and is often recommended to invalids by high medical 

 authority. 



