354 FARMING FOR LADIES, [chap, xviii. 



as to seem like what would in London be 

 called cream, when compared with any of 

 the cows bred in England ; thus rendering 

 them peculiarly adapted to the situation in 

 which they are in this country usually found. 

 Mr. Malcolm indeed mentions, — in his 

 ' Compendium of Modern Husbandry,' — 

 " that he kept an Alderney and a Suffolk 

 cow — the latter the best of the kind he ever 

 saw ; while the Alderney, which had dropped 

 her first calf, was purchased out of a drove in 

 a miserable condition. During seven years — 

 the milk and butter being always kept sepa- 

 rate — ^it was found, year after year, that the 

 value of the Alderney exceeded that of the 

 Suffolk, though the latter gave double the 

 quantity of milk at each meal." He then 

 adds, " that he at that time had a dairy of 

 twelve cows — 



Two Devons, — Two Wiltshire long horned, 

 One Derby, — Two Holderness, 

 One Lincoln, — One Suflblk, and 

 Two Sussex, — One Alderney, 



and she bore the palm clean away." 



Notwithstanding what we have said of the 

 form of the Alderneys not being generally 



