CATTLE. 



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We may add here, as giving some hints that may 

 be useful in the selection of dairy animals, a maxim 

 much relied on among the London dairymen ; and 

 some doggerel lines, descriptive of a good cow, from 

 the Farmer's Magazine. '' A milch cow, good for 



the pail as long as she is wanted, and then quicklj- 

 got into a marketable condition, should have a long 

 and rather small head. A large-headed cow will sel- 

 dom fatten or yield much milk." Of a good cow it 

 may be said, 



