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breeds kept within the limits of our Society are most de- 

 sirable. It is a question of much difficulty, and probably 

 no one breed is best suited to all sections and purposes. 

 The Durham may excel for making beef; the Ayrshires 

 for affording milk in large quantities ; the Jerseys for 

 richness in the quality of their milk, and the choice qual- 

 ity of their butter ; while the Devons, for the compara- 

 tive small expense at which they are fed, with their good 

 return of milk and butter, and their excellence for work, 

 recommend themselves favorably to those who have given 

 them a trial. 



But whatever selection is made of stock, only a poor 

 return can be expected either of milk or beef, without 

 regular and liberal feeding. It is not only very unprofit- 

 able, but quite unsatisfactory, to attempt furnishing the 

 products of the dairy from cows scantily fed. In no other 

 way but by good feeding can the business be made to pay. 



Upon the mode of manufacturing butter and cheese, 

 very much is depending. A great quantity of poorly 

 made butter is sold at from twelve to seventeen cents per 

 pound, that, by proper care in the process of making and 

 packing, or " doing up," might quite as well bring twen- 

 ty-five cents, making a very essential difference in the 

 profit or loss of the business. We learn from a market 

 man that some of the butter makers in this state, who 

 have learned the art of making good butter, are finding 

 customers at the encouraging price of forty cents per 

 pound. 



The manner of milking is probably of far greater im- 

 portance than usually considered. Cows should be 

 milked rapidly, and yet gently and thoroughly. Lazy, 

 careless milkers, stopping to talk, or for other purpose, 

 during the time of milking a cow, are unprofitable milk- 

 ers, if they work for nothing. Persons of little patience, 

 who frighten their cows by harsh words or useless blows, 

 are unfit for the business. A soothing tone of voice to 

 an uneasy, troublesome cow, is far better to make her 

 quiet and gentle than that which comes so natural to 



