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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



POBTRAIT OF AN IMPORTED DtTTCH BULIi, 



In our last we gave the portrait of a beautiful I Of the cows of Gelderland, Uveryss'el, and 

 imported Dutch cow, the property of WiNTHROPj Utrecht, the yield cannot be reckoned higher 

 W. Cheneky, Esq., of Watertown, Mass., and than sixteen quarts daily, and that only during 

 having introduced that illustration of this breed the first half of their milking season, 

 of cattle to the reader, we propose now to pre- 

 sent another view of it, and make the subject as 

 complete as possible. 



The animal figured above was also imported by 

 Mr. Chenery in 1857, from Holland, near the 

 Beemster, in the northerly, part of Purmerend. 

 This animal illustrates Mr. Flint's new work on 

 Milch Cows, and we draw the following descrip- 

 tion from the same source. 



The Dutch cattle are, in general, renowned for 

 their dairy qualities ; but especially so are the 

 cows of North Holland, Avhich not only give a 

 larger quantity, but also a very good quality, so 

 that a yield of sixteen to twenty-five wine quarts 

 at every milking is not rare. Next to these come 

 the West Friesland and South Dutch cows, from 



For the New England Parmer. 



HOW TO PREVENT BUILDINGS BEING 

 STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 



Mr. Editor : — I have seen several communi- 

 cations in your papers of the last few weeks on 

 the subject of electricity, and its agency in the 

 firing of buildings. Many of the statements that 

 have been made are true, both in regard to the 

 laws that govern the fluid, and other matters in 

 connection with the subject, but none of them 

 give a remedy that can be used to avoid the dis- 

 asters that arise from the "equilibriating of these 

 imponderable forces." As Franklin's practical 

 mind led him to say "()««' bono" to know how 

 the trouble is generated, is of no value if we 

 cannot find a cure, so I would ask, of what value 



which from twenty to twenty-four quarts of milk a^^ these statements ? What we want is, to know 



how we may guide these great lorces, and it we 



may be calculated on. Though one could not 

 take a certain number, and calculate surely what 

 the yield of each cow would be, yet he could 

 come very near the truth, if he reckoned that a 

 cow, in three hundred days, or as long as she is 

 milked, gives, on an average, daily, from six to 

 eight quarts of milk, from which the whole annu- 

 al yield would be from one thousand eight hun- 

 dred to two thousand four hundred quarts. Of 

 this, the cow gives one-half in the first four 

 months, one-third in the next three, and in the 

 remainder, one-sixth. These superficial results 

 cannot be taken, however, as the fixed rule. 



cannot make them subservient to our interests, 

 and prevent their doing us injury. 



The protection of buildings from the disas- 

 trous effects of lightning, and thereby the saving 

 of human life, is the most valuable practical ap- 

 plication of the theories of electricity ; and un- 

 doubtedly with this end in view, the inventive 

 genius of our people has been turned in this di- 

 rection during the last fe^v years, bringing out 

 some half-dozen different lightning rods, and as 

 many difterent insulators ; but all, I believe, to 

 very little purpose, for still our buildings are 

 struck by the bolt, life is endangered, and prop- 

 erty consumed. 



The great question, then, recurs, "How can we 



