MILCH COWS. Ill 



2d. That barn should be cleaned often. 



3d. The cows should be fed regularly ; that is, at regular 

 hours. 



4th. They should be milked and managed with all gentleness. 



5th. They should never be forced to remain out in the cold, 

 or starve. 



6th. They should be "curried" every morning. 



7th. They shoiild be milked dry every time, and by a milker 

 that milks quickly but tenderly. 



We will say a few words now in regard to selecting cows. 

 They are meant to apply to native cows, as blood cows, or pure 

 crosses, need no great selection. We only mean to allude to 

 those marks easily found and readily seen ; marks which any 

 careless farmer may observe. 



First, for Nantucket, the cow should not be over large. Her 

 hinder quarters should be larger than her fore. She should 

 have a large, soft bag. Her milk veins which come out of the 

 bag, and lead along and go up into her belly about half way 

 between her fore legs and hind ones, should be large, and the 

 more zig-zag and knotted, the better. The whole cow should 

 be in the shape of a wedge, her head and shoulders being thin, 

 and the thickest part across the hips, looking over the back. It 

 would be a good sign to have her wedge-shaped the other way, 

 too ; her head being the point, and the very thickest part from 

 the hip bones down to the bottom of the bag, or udder. Let 

 her have a small head, a slim tail, a bright eye, and mild coun- 

 tenance. As to the milk mirror of Gudnon, there is no doubt ; 

 and to a person of sharp perception, and one who has looked at 

 it and studied it carefully, it is a great guide. All good milkers 

 have it large, and some poor milkers. These, however, may 

 have been made poor milkers, by neglect in some way, or by 

 disease. 



James Thompson, Esq., the president of the society, has pur- 

 chased a small lot of Jersey cows, and a thoroughbred Jersey 

 bull. Here is, perhaps, the only chance for pure-breeds, and as 

 pure-breeds are so much more reliable for profit than natives, 

 we hope every farmer will get as much of this stock as possible. 

 These animals of the president's are from the very best Jersey 

 stock, and as it will be impossible from so small a lot to get 

 pure-bloods very fast, it is to be hoped every farmer will hurry 



