PROMINENT BREEDERS RECORDS 203 



Fairford, Glos. ; Godfrey John Boyle Chetwynd, Wyndthorpe, 

 Doncaster, Yorks ; Clifford J. Cory, Llantarnam, Monmouth- 

 shire ; Countess De la Warr, Old Lodge, Nutley, Sussex ; 

 Duchess of Devonshire, Compton Place, Eastbourne ; H- 

 Martin Gibbs, Barrow Court, Bristol, Somerset ; Lady 

 Greenall, Walton Hall, Warrington ; Countess of Lathom, 

 Lathom House, Ormskirk, Lanes ; H. Meuric Lloyd, Delfryn, 

 Llanwrda, S. Wales ; Duchess of Newcastle, Clumber, 

 Worksop, Notts ; G. L. Palmer, Lackham, Lacock, Wilts ; 

 James Robertson and R. Tait, La Mancha, Malahide, Dublin ; 

 Countess of Sefton, Croxteth Hall, West Derby, Lanes ; 

 William Stallard, St John House, St John, Worcester ; Martin 

 J. Sutton, Holme Park, Sonning, Berks; Colonel Victor 

 W. B. Van de Weyer, New Lodge, Windsor Forest ; William 

 Vickary, The Knoll, Newton Abbot, S. Devon. 



The Kerry cow in breeding condition should not weigh 

 more than 900 Ibs., and a breeding bull 1000 Ibs. live-weight. 

 The Dexter cow and bull should each weigh 100 Ibs. less 

 respectively. 



The breed, more especially the Dexter section of it, 

 possesses the power of beef production in an eminent degree, 

 " fattening rapidly on even middling pasture, and their beef is 

 exceedingly fine and well flavoured." 



A record of a typical fat Kerry cow is given in 1872 by 

 Pringle as : " 38 in. in height at the shoulder, 70 in. in girth, 

 and 42 in. in length from the top of the shoulder to the tail- 

 head, and a weight of about 30 imperial stones " ; and he 

 adds, " the average daily yield of milk of a Kerry cow, 

 properly fed and attended to, is 3 gallons a quantity capable 

 of producing 6 Ibs. to 7 Ibs. of butter weekly." James Lang 

 says : 



" The records of the milking trials of the British Dairy 

 Farmers at Islington show that one year eight Kerries averaged 

 36 Ibs. of milk daily, containing 3j per cent, of butter-fat. 

 Another year twelve Kerries gave 25 J Ibs. of milk, with 4^ per 

 cent, of fat, and other solids amounting to 9.2 per cent. A 

 third year's average was 33 J Ibs. milk, 3.69 percent, of fat. 

 Throughout, the Kerries averaged over 3 gallons of milk per 

 day, while in three different years thirty-two cows gave milk 

 with 4j per cent, of fat. Adeanes' cow, ' Babraham Bell,' 

 produced noo gallons of milk in one year, and from the La 



