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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Establishment of a dairy — Purchase and choice of cows — 

 Long and short horns — Ayrshires — Suft'olk polled — Welsh 

 — Alderney, with portrait — Kerry cows and produce — 

 Stall-feeding, and general management. 



Although the dairy may not afford so much 

 amusement to a lady and her children as the 

 poultry-yard, it will yet not yield to it in 

 point of profit, nor be found deficient in that 

 pleasure which a sensible woman must ever 

 derive from having around her the homely 

 essentials of family comforts; amongst which 

 the produce of a dairy may perhaps rank as 

 high as most, for no one can be insensible to 

 the value of pure milk and cream, with deli- 

 cately made fresh butter ; and if to these be 

 added comparative cheapness, it can hardly 

 be denied that, where there is pasture and 

 convenience for a cow, so useful an animal 

 should ever be made part of the domestic 

 establishment. 



This little treatise, being solely intended 



