No. 2. 



Dairy Maid. 



57 



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DAIRY :\IA.ID, 



The property of James Gowen, JEsq. Imported b'om, England, hi the Fall of 1838, /ro?n 

 the Herd of Mr. Whitaker, Yorkshire. 



Pedigree— DAIRY MAID, roan, calved 1835; by Harsley, 2,091, (Harsley's dam by Pilot, 496.) dam 

 by Rob Roy, 557. Rob Roy, by Remus, a son of Comet, 155, d. Lady Jane, by Comet, 155, (1,000 guineas) 

 g. d. Cleasley Lady, by a son of Favourite, 252, gr. g. d. Liicinda, by Mr. Mutton's Bull of Marske, gr. gr. 

 g. d. Lucy, by Barninghara, 56. '■ 



" This beautiful, thorough-bred animal, is one of the greatest milkers on record. On a 

 trial of a week, in the 4lh month from calvino-, in June 1839, (being her first summer in 

 this climate) she gave, on an average, more thanl32 quarts per day. The same summer, 

 on a subsequent trial, she yielded, on an average,jin a week, over_28 quarts per day; and 

 in the same season, 7 months from calving, she g^ve, in a week, upwards of 20 quarts per 

 day. Making, on an average to each of the thilee weeks, 12 pounds of delicious butler. 

 Again, in the summer of 1840, in the fourth montt from calving, she yielded, in one week, 

 235^ quarts of milk, being, on an average, more than 33i^ quarts per day. 



Dairy Maid is no less regular in breeding than in milking. When imported, she was 

 with calf by " Duke of Northumberland," and calved, as was expected, in February 1839. 

 Her beautiful bull-calf, " Leander," when 8 months old, took the first premium at the agri- 

 cultural exhibition, at the Rising Sun, October isi39. In February 1840, she had " Allen- 

 a-Dale," a splendid white bull-calf, by " Callostra." She is again with calf— her time Feb- 

 ruary next. 



Placed betwixt her two calves, " Leander" and " Allen-a-Dale," Dairy Maid, in point 

 and proportion, in breeding and in milking, is an object that might gratify the most fastidious 

 breeder in any country." 



The superiority of the breed of short-horns is still acknowledged, and the high prices 

 xvhich they command in every section of the Union are proofs of the esteem in which they 

 are held. It ought not to be forgotten, that for the introduction of the Durhams into this 

 country, we are indebted primarily to Dr. James Mease, the Vice President of the Phila- 

 delphia Agrictiltural Society, who first called the attention of J. H. Powell, Esq., then in 

 England, to their merits ; while to Am is due, the honour of their first importation. 



At a late sale of short-horns in Kentucky, the cow "Victoria" was purchased by R. Fisher, 

 for S1750; " Eclipse," by the same, for S10.50; " Miss Luck," by H. Clay, Jun., for S800; 

 "Nancy," by C. J. Rogers, for -$730; "Carcass," by B. Gratz, for $725, &c. Such men 

 are an honour to the country. 



