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be immediately broad tipped. There is a breed of 

 polled Yorkshire or Holderness cows, some of them 

 of middling size ; great milkers and well adapted to 

 the use of families, where a great quantity of milk is 

 required, and where price is no object, and food in 

 plenty. If richer milk and a comparison of the two 

 famous breeds be desired, one of each may be selected, 

 namely, the last mentioned, and the other of the mid- 

 land county, or long horned species. Colour is so far 

 no object, that neither a good cow nor a good horse 

 can be of a bad colour ; nevertheless, in an ornamen- 

 tal view, the sheeted and pied stock of the Yorkshire 

 short horns, make a picturesque figure in the grounds. 

 The Alderney cows yield rich milk upon less food 

 than larger stock, but are seldom large milkers, and 

 are particularly scanty of produce in the winter sea- 

 sons. They are, besides, worth little or nothing as 

 barreners, not only on account of their small size, but 

 their inaptitude to take on fat, and the ordinary quality 

 of their beef. 



To determine the economy of a cow. 



The annual consumption of food per cow, if turned 

 to grass, is from one acre to an acre and a half in the 

 summer, and from a ton to a ton and a half of hay in 

 the winter. A cow may be allowed 2 pecks of car- 

 rots per day. The grass being cut and carried, will 

 economize it full one third. The annual product of a 

 good fair dairy cow, during several months after calv- 

 ing, and either in summer or winter, if duly fed and 

 kept in the latter season, will be an average of seven 

 pounds of butter per week, from five to three gallons 

 of milk per day. 



Afterwards, a weekly average of three or four 



