COWS. 11 



and pretty with the like of him means not only 

 picturesque. 



Let me counsel you that long grass is requisite for 

 a fattening beast, as a short, sweet bite for the 

 butter-making milch cow. The cow, after all, being 

 but a machiDe, a change of grass produces at once 

 a flush of milk. 



The Highland butter, so much sought after in the 

 market, owes its flavour to the delicate sweet herbage 

 that springs on the alluvial soil beside the burns at 

 the bottom of those ancient glens. Where quantity 

 of milk is mainly looked for, as in the London 

 dairies, the mellow-skinned Craven cow, with her 

 monstrous udder, is preferred, and the old Yorkshire 

 shorthorn or Holderness, from which the improved 

 pedigree animal was built up. They are bought just 

 before or after calving, and are fed chiefly upon 

 brewer's grains, kept in a brick vault until they 

 turn sour. Those who do not wish, or who have not 

 the means, to adopt such an elaborate system of 

 feeding as that recommended by Mr. Horsfall, will 

 find their cows make a highly profitable return of 

 milk and butter in winter on cut swedes and meadow 

 hay : a small feed twice a day of cut hay and bran 

 or oilcake will much assist, but without that we 

 find our cows do well and look half-ready for the 

 butcher. 



It is as advantageous to the pail as it is luxurious 

 to the cow to have water running always before her : 

 nine pailfuls of water were consumed in one night by 

 six cows of mine recently, which had been grazing 

 all day, and were fed within upon cut swedes and 



