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came shifty and kicked over the pail. Each rake 

 or 301bs. of milk is weighed, and then carried to the 

 tin dishes in the dairy. The calculation is that one 

 gallon should be equal to a pint of cream, if it is fine 

 weather and it rises properly, and that a quart of cream 

 should produce about a pound of butter ; but this is 

 hardly borne out in practice. Only skim-milk cheese 

 is made, and nearly a hundred flagons at the door 

 of the dairy were ready to receive the milk of the 

 night before, and to disperse it at a penny a quart 

 through Dunkeld. 



We sat down with Mr. Christie, who has 

 always taken nearly as much interest in the Ayr- 

 shires as his late master, to watch the " kye come 

 name" through the Arnagag pasture. The bell-cow 

 had renounced her privileges for the day, and Max- 

 well, a present from the Secretary of the Highland 

 Society, led the van. Kilsyth, one of the prettiest, 

 succeeded, and then Whitelegs, with a head and 

 neck as sweet in their way as Atty's vessel, which 

 is, after all, the point on which the Ayrshire judge's 

 eye first concentrates itself. Hopeful, for instance, 

 is a nice cow, but then "her vessel is gone for 

 shows." Premium, a gold-medal cow of great depth, 

 came next with the bell, and then Marion, the milk 

 belle of the herd, and good for nine quarts at a meal. 

 When Glengall was in her prime, she would some- 

 times not stop short of thirteen, with only a few peas 

 and a little bean meal to aid her. She was bred by 

 Mr. Wallace of Kirklandholm near Ayr, and was pur- 



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