Lhe Stock Different Breeds fuit different Situations. GQl 



quantity of milk. The form of the animal mod remarkable for the firft is very 

 different from that of the other ; in place of being flat in the fides, and big in the 

 belly, as all great milkers arc, it is Jiigh-fidcd and light-bellied : in a word, its 

 body is barrel-formed, while that of the other is more fitted to embrace a horfe- 

 .collar with the wide fide downwards. It is not probable, therefore, that the pro 

 perties of two breeds of cattle, fo oppofite in form and general appearance, can 

 ever be united in the fame animal. If a large quantity of milk, whatever be its 

 quality, is the object, the dairyman muft Content hirafelf with fuch plain ill-look 

 ing animals as have been defcribed. And as the milk of all cows is well known 

 not to be of the fame quality, it appears highly probable, that in proportion as the 

 cows of the milking tribe exceed thofe that are more difpofed to fatten in quantity, 

 in nearly the fame proportion will their milk be inferior in quality. Ifthis mould 

 prove to he the cafe, the fuperiority of the quick feeders one would fuppofe to be 

 completely eihbliihed j as, while cattle of this defcription are confefledly better 

 .for the purpofesjof the graziers, the butchers, and the confumers, they would, if 

 this point were determined in their favour, be a lfo more valuable for the dairy, 

 .No perfon will thjnk of afierting, that a gallon or two of whey or of butter 

 milk extra (for the quertion comes to that J is a fufficient reafon for preferring a 

 &quot;breed of plain-looking, ill-formed cattle, to one that, except in this particular, is 

 more valuable in every refpect. In a word, no perfon, who pretends to a know 

 ledge of the different breeds of cattle, will think of fupporting an opinion fo erro 

 neous, as that cattle which are difpofed to fatten quickly, and at an early age, thar, 

 from the fuperior excellence of their form, have a fmall proportion of offal, or 

 %vhat the breeders call non-eflentials, and that, although they yield not a large 

 quantity of milk, yet makeup for that deficiency in the richnefs of its quality, 

 arc not more valuable than thofc which have nothing to recommend them but the 

 fmgle property of being great milkers.* M 



Mr. Culley, in comparing the breeds -of long- and mort-horned cattle, contends 

 that the-former excel in the hide, hair, and quality of the beef ; the latter in the 

 quantity of bef, tallow and milk ; and that though each breed has long had, and 

 probably may have, its particular advocates, it is not improbable but that each 

 sna.y have its particular advantages in different fituations. Thus the thick, firm 



* DonaldfonYPwfcnt State of Hufoandry, vol. III. 



