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of the Ayrshire dairy stock. He had heard of 16 

 or 18 pints (28J- to 32 quarts) being taken from a 

 cow every day, but had never seen so much. 3 



In 1829 William Harley states "as the average for 

 the Harleian dairy, 12 quarts per day." This is 

 4,380 quarts a year. It will be remembered, how- 

 ever, that in this dairy the cattle were kept in very 

 high condition, and were continually being turned for 

 the butcher ; and these high figures do not represent 

 the average for a cow, but only for the average num- 

 ber kept during the year. Mr. Harley bought one 

 very large fine cow at a high price. This cow gave 

 for a considerable time 40 quarts a day. He had a 

 number of other very fine cows which, when newly 

 calved and highly fed, produced from 25 to 30 quarts 

 per day. 4 



Dr. Voelcker, 5 of England, writing in 1863, men- 

 tions a cow bought by the Duke of Athol from Mr. 

 Wallace, Kirklandholm, and probably in his Grace's 

 dairy at Dunkeld House at the present time, that pro- 

 duced 13,456 pounds (6,258 quarts) of milk from 

 the llth of April, 1860, to the llth of April, 

 1861. 6 



In Morton's -Farmer's Almanack for 1866, the 

 average annual yield per cow in five known dairies 

 is given at 4,992 pints, but which is stated to be 

 above the average of ordinary grass-fed cows. 7 



Alton's Survey of Ayrshire, p. 428. 

 Harleian Dairy System, pp 87 and 106. 

 Jour, of R. A B. of Eng. 1863, p. 308. 

 Journ. R. A.S. of Eng. 1863, p. 3u8. 

 Quoted in Pr. Essays H. Soc. 1866-7, p. 78 



