CHAP, xviii.] FARMING FOR LADIES. 349 



quantities of butter from the same number 

 of quarts. 



The cows kept for the supply of the Me- 

 tropoUs are mostly of the Yorkshire short- 

 horns, or Teeswater and Holderness, which 

 have the double advantage of affording a 

 large quantity of milk and of being easily 

 fattened for the butcher. The latter object 

 cannot, however, be of any moment in a pri- 

 vate family, by whom such a source of profit 

 is not contemplated, and with whom quality 

 is generally of more consequence than quan- 

 tity of milk ; while that of the cow to which 

 we have alluded is not of the richest nature. 



The long-liorns of Lancashire are also of a 

 large size, rare milkers, of more hardy con- 

 stitution than the short-horns, and, if the land 

 be wet or the situation cold, are preferred by 

 many farmers. Gentlemen, who only want a 

 cow or two, find it, however, usually more 

 convenient, if living far from the metropolis, 

 to take them from a neighbour, of the sort 

 commonly bred in the county ; or, if resident 

 near London, as they seldom have much land 

 belonging to their villas, and that frequently 

 of a poor kind, both they and their ladies 



