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provided due advantage is taken in keeping the cows 

 in good enough order to pay for themselves as beef 

 after they have brought in the revenue of the churn 

 and the cheese press. The Alderney affords an excel- 

 lent strain for small butter dairies where the butter is 

 really first class, and can readily be sold at first hand 

 to those who appreciate its excellence and are willing 

 to pay a larger price accordingly ; but this breed is 

 scarcely to be recommended for general dairy purposes, 

 since it cannot be forgotten that the ultimate destina- 

 tion of all horned cattle is for the table, and the 

 Alderney leaves little more than a skeleton after the 

 milk pail is filled. 



2. As regards Sheep, I cannot omit to urge upon 

 your attention the earnest conviction I feel, that they 

 do not receive among you the attention to which they 

 are entitled. What is the reason of this neglect ? It 

 cannot be that there is anything in your climate which 

 should confine you exclusively to dairying, or anything 

 in your grasses which makes better beef than they 

 would mutton ! You know of the county of Ayr, from 

 which the Ayrshire cattle come, mainly I presume from 

 its fame as a dairy county, but how is it with sheep 

 there ? 



I will not w T eary you with all the details of the 

 statistical comparison I have drawn up between your 

 own county of Worcester and that of Ayiy& but let me 

 state that with an actual area 40,000 acres smaller than 

 that of Worcester, Ayr has a larger surface on which a 

 tillage rotation is carried out, so that she produces 

 about four times as much grain as is grown in Worces- 

 ter county, mainly oats and wheat. Now the total 



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