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which are not wanted now ; the milk trade has closed them 

 until the time when they may haply be wanted in the future. 

 So far as we can see at present, however, not only are they 

 not likely to be wanted again for years to come, save perhaps 

 occasionally when there is a plethora of milk in the sum- 

 mer, but it will perhaps be worse for dairying at large if 

 they should be wanted much in the future. At the same 

 time, it may occur in a few years' time that butter-making and 

 cheese-making, too, may again become profitable enough to 

 induce a good many milk-selling farmers to give up the trade. 

 Meantime the dairy at Finchley exists as a part of the original 

 plan of the premises ; yet it is now but little more than an 

 ornament. 



The Live Stock. 



The cattle consist of pedigree animals, carefully bred and 

 trained for milk as well as flesh. The Guernseys, however, are 

 not, as the Shorthorns are, susceptible of being made first-rate 

 butchers' cattle. Many prizes have been taken by each of 

 the three breeds Guernseys, Shorthorns, and Kerrys but the 

 Guernseys are the leading breed, because of the extraordinary 

 richness of their milk, of which, for medium-sized animals, 

 they yield a large quantity. For a high-class milk trade, it may 

 be doubted if any other breed would answer the purpose so well. 

 The little Kerrys also yield very rich milk, and, for the size of 

 them, a large quantity of it. It may be taken for granted that 

 a mixture of Guernsey, Kerry, and Shorthorn milk will give 

 entire satisfaction to the most fastidious of customers. High- 

 class bulls of each breed are kept for service, and everything is 

 done to ensure purity and excellence of type all round. I could 

 not help thinking how deplorable the misfortune would be if 

 pleuro-pneumonia, or anthrax, or rinderpest were to invade the 

 premises at the College Farm, for herds like these are not built 

 up in a day. 



One of the Shire mares is by " Defiance," by " What's 

 Wanted/' and she was in foal to "Bar None." Another is 

 by " King Charles,'' dam by " Dragoman," and she was in foal 



