NOTES ON FIELDS AND CATTLE. 



cows. 



Selection for the Dairy — Ayrshire Breed— Rev. Mr. Berry— Duke 

 of Bedford's Experiments at Woburn — Devon — Shorthorn — 

 Hereford — Origin of the Cow — Shorthorn — Middlehorn— Long- 

 horn — Master Butterfly — Bride Elect — Comparative Merits of 

 different Breeds — "Beef-making Hereford" — Prince Consort's 

 Lobelias — Macdonald — Lord Durham — Alderneys — Scotch — 

 Welsh — Irish — Barnet Fair — Highland Butter — London Dairies 

 — Mr. Horsfall's System of Feeding — Mangold-wurzel versus 

 Turnips — Shelter for Cattle — Milking Points — Fawsley Park 

 Herd — Pedigree Shorthorns — The Art of Breeding — Anglese}' 

 Cattle — Colonel Pennant — George III. — Glamorgan Cow — Period 

 of Calving — Division of Pastures — Signs of Health and Sickness 

 — Fattening for Shows — Queen of Athelstane and Stanley Rose — 

 Cattle cropping Fences— Chewing Bones — In Ireland feed on 

 Fish ; in the Orkneys on Seaweed — Yalue of Colour in Cows in 

 Devonshire — Wales— Sussex — Barbary — Ransom paid in Kine — 

 Maud de Breos — Chillingham Cattle— Druid's Sacrifice — White 

 Ox of Africa. 



For your dairy select at the fall of the year — 

 when many are obliged to thin their stock, and some 

 prefer to sell — a few milch cows to calve in the 

 spring, when their produce will be most valuable : if 

 possible, a few milch cows heavy with their second or 

 third calf, of some well-established breed. For really 

 good animals of an approved milk strain you will 



