358 FARMING FOR LADIES, [chap, xtiii. 



generally speaking, a good cow, with her 

 third calf, will yield from ten to twelve 

 quarts daily, and weekly about eight to ten 

 pounds of butter. It should also be observed, 

 that they frequently produce nine or ten 

 calves, and are not considered in their prime 

 until they have had four or five, at which 

 time most other cows are considered old. 

 Their price, of course, varies according to 

 their age and beauty : a heifer, with her 

 first calf, may be had, in London, for twelve 

 to fourteen guineas ; whereas a prime cow 

 is worth from eighteen to twenty pounds, de- 

 liverable within twenty miles of town." We 

 indeed, know, that a prime cow can seldom 

 be got, even in Jersey, for that money ; for 

 prize cows are sometimes sold in the island so 

 high as thirty pounds : but perhaps heifers 

 of the best kind are, in the end, the cheapest 

 to purchase. 



There is, however, an Irish coiv, bred in 

 the mountains of Kerry, from which it takes 

 its name, and is but little known in this 

 country, though well meriting the attention 

 of persons who like the smaller breeds, as 

 being generally, if not more docile than those 



