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CATTLE. 



however, is of an extraordinarily excellent quality, and gives more but- 

 ter per quart than can be obtained from the milk of any other cow. 

 Some writers on agricultural subjects have, however, denied this. 

 The milk of the Alderney cow fits her for the situation in which she 

 is usually placed, and where the excellence of the article is regarded, 

 and not the expense : but it is not rich enough, yielding the small 

 quantity that she does, to pay for what she costs. On the South 

 coast of England, there is great facility in obtaining the Aldeniey 

 cattle, and they are great favorites there. 





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One excellence it must be acknowledged that the Alderneys pos- 

 sess ; when they are dried, they fatten with a rapidity that would be 

 scarcely thought possible from their gaunt appearance, and their 

 want of almost every grazing^ point, while living. 



Some have assigned to the Norman or Alderney cattle a share in 

 the improvement of the old short-horns ; but the fact does not rest 

 on any good authority. 



EAST INDIAN CATTLE. 



Several varieties of these have been imported, and attempts made 

 to naturalize them, but with varied success, and among them the 

 Vagore cattle. 



