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3. Cream-Pot Breed. — From an account of his enterprises 

 and success, with which Mr. Jaques has favored me, I make the 

 subjoined extracts : 



" It has been my object to effect such an improvment in milch 

 cows as should produce the greatest quantity of rich milk, affording 

 the largest quantity of butter. There is a greater difference in pecu- 

 niary profit between a good or a poor cow than among any other do- 

 mestic animals. In some yards, there may be found those which will 

 not produce more than three pounds per week, and others that would 

 make nine, and all on the same keep. As we sometimes hear of 

 cows, which have produced seventeen pounds of butter per week, 

 and even more, it occurred to me to inquire why a breed or race 

 could not be formed with the same valuable properties. This I 

 have attempted ; and have carried it to the third generation, and I am 

 confident of success. I have a cow, whose milk has produced nine 

 pounds of the best butter in three days : and this on grass feed only. 

 This I call my Cream- Pot breed. I have bred my cream-pots with 

 red or mahogany-colored hair, yellow noses, with mahogany-colored 

 teats, yellow skin, silky and elastic to the touch. I have obtained 

 the breed by the cross of a Durham short horned bull on a selected 

 native cow with certain extraordinary points and properties, anxious 

 to retain as much of the form of the Durham, as to ensure capacious 

 udders and widi the valuable property of affording rich milk. Though 

 an admirer of the Durham short horns, I have not found them produ- 

 cing so rich milk nor making so much yellow butter as I could wish. 

 The Durham race are round and straight in the barrel, full in the twist, 

 and inclining to be thick in the thigh. I have wished for some improve- 

 ment in the form of the bag. But I would premise, that whatever 

 I may say in respect to breeding animals, I only desire to express 

 my own private notions, widiout a wish to dictate to any one, from 

 the experience I have had, which, I am sensible, is very limited. 

 Generally, cows, which I have examined, giving the largest amount 

 of the richest milk, have had capacious bags, full behind, extending 

 far up into the twist and also well formed ; hanging moderately deep 

 when full in milk, and after the milk is drawn, quite the reverse, for 

 I would avoid a fleshy bag. My Cream-Pot breed are full in the 

 body, drop deep in the flank, are not quite so straight in the belly, 

 nor as full in the twist, nor as thick in the thigh ; but in other re- 

 spects I wish them to approach the Durham as near as may be. 



