356 FARMING FOR LADIES, [chap. xvui. 



month of May and part of June, fifty-one 

 pounds imperial, of similar quality : some of 

 the best cows having given even so much as 

 twenty- six quarts daily ; producing weekly 

 fourteen pounds of butter. " The colour of 

 the milk" — he also observes — "denotes the 

 richness of the butter ; and the richest milk 

 and cream are produced by cows whose ears 

 have a yellow or orange colour within." 



Notwithstanding the mild temperature of 

 the Channel islands during the winter months, 

 the cows are commonly housed at night ; and 

 each fed daily with a certain portion of straw, 

 fi-om ten to twenty pounds of hay, with about 

 ten to twenty pounds of parsnips, white car- 

 rots, turnips, or mangold-wiirzel, and what 

 small portion of grass they may pick up when 

 turned out in fine weather, for a few hours, 

 upon their pasture. 



In the summer, they are also usually taken 

 into the house for a few hours during the heat 

 of the day, as the flies would leave them no 

 repose for the chewing of the cud : but this 

 occasions a diminution of milk, and therefore, 

 unless when called for by the state of the 

 weather, should be avoided. 



