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as the elephant ; while the cows in some of the Highland dis- 

 tricts in Scotland are not much larger than the goat. The 

 bison has a mane like the lion, a beard like a goat, and a 

 hump like the camel. But all these," he says, "are laid aside 

 when the animal is domesticated." Seek for those cows that 

 will make the most butter and cheese during the year; not 

 those that give the greatest quantity of milk, without any re- 

 gard to quality. A cow that will give a pailful of milk and 

 have it all serum, is worth nothing for the dairy ; the milk 

 will do to sell, if the man has a conscience to sell it. In order 

 to ascertain the true worth of a dairy, each cow ought to be 

 milked by herself, and the milk used by itself, so as to ascer- 

 tain the quantity of butter and cheese she would make in a 

 given time. By so doing the value of each cow for the dairy 

 might be determined. Farmers, by this process, who keep 

 large dairies, would discover that some of their cows would 

 yield double the profit of others. This would enable them to 

 remove the poor cow from the dairy, and fill her place with a 

 better one. The keeping of the two, other things being equal, 

 will be the same. This must make a serious loss to the owner. 

 It is not yet settled what breed of cattle are decidedly the best 

 for the dairy. This is yet to be determined by farther trials, 

 I will mention a few among the many of the celebrated cows 

 for the dairy. The English cow called the Cromp cow, is, per- 

 haps, the most celebrated for butter on record. The butter 

 made from her milk, for several successive years, amounted to 

 from 450 to 675 lbs. annually. She was of the Sussex breed. 

 The greatest quantity of milk she ever gave in one day was 

 twenty quarts. The most butter made from her millv in one 

 week was 18 lbs. Other cows have made more butter in a 

 week, and given more milk in a day. The advantage she had 

 over other great milkers was, she scarcely went dry at all be- 

 tween her calves. The celebrated Oaks cow of Massachusetts 

 made, in four years, 1,284 lbs. of butter, averaging 321 lbs. 

 annually. The greatest quantity of milk she gave in a day 

 was 18 quarts; the greatest quantity of butter made from her 

 milk in one week was 19|^ lbs. The noted cow of Mr. Le 

 Roy, Genesee Co., N. Y., calved in May, and on the 27th of 

 June he took from her, at three milkings, morning, noon, and 

 night, Sl^ quarts of good, rich milk ; which was not more, he 



