CHAP, xviii.] FARMING FOR LADIES. 359 



of a large kind, yet more convenient and more 

 easily manageable in a small establishment, 

 as well as more appropriate to become the 

 pets of ladies and children. They are very 

 diminutive, even much smaller, and far 

 cheaper than the Alderneys ; yet giving 

 such very rich milk, and in such superior 

 quantity in proportion to their size, that in 

 a comparative experiment tried a few years 

 ago, by order of government, on the King 

 William's town estate, between ten heifers 

 bred from a cross between the ordinary long- 

 horns and a Kerry bull, and ten of the 

 pure Ayrshire breed, the produce of the 

 Kerries, both in milk and butter^ proved 

 superior : the Kerries having produced with- 

 in twelve months 13,084, and the Ayrshires 

 only 12,645, quarts of milk; and a pound of 

 salt butter being the average produced from 

 8j^ quarts of milk of the Kerries, while of 

 the Ayrshires 9 J quarts were required.* 



In reference to the smallness of the quan- 

 tity of milk — the ground upon which the cows 

 were fed, it should be observed, is mountain 



* ' Journal of the Royal Society of Agriculture in 

 England:' vol. i., p. 443. The quantity of salt used in 

 the curing of the butter was one-eleventh of the weight. 



