228 VARIOUS BREEDS SIGNS OF MILK. 



For a more extensive view of this subject, as well 

 as that of SWINE, the reader is referred to " Law- 

 rences General Treatise on Cattle:" the present 

 object is to impart such a degree of practical know- 

 ledge as shall be sufficient for the private family 

 dairy, to minister to the convenience of proprietors, 

 and to shield them from disappointment and impo- 

 sition. 



Our neat cattle are divided into various breeds 

 or races, each distinguished by peculiar qualities, 

 the most important of which are the natural pro- 

 pensity to breeding milk, or making beef ; with the 

 former of which lies our most material business. 

 The English milky breeds chiefly are the Lan- 

 cashire and Midland County LONG-HORNS the 

 Yorkshire or Holderness SHORT-HORNS the Suf- 

 folk DUNS the Nat, or hornless Red Devons. In 

 Scotland, the AYRSHIRE and the famous DUNLOP 

 Cows the Fifeshire and Orkney Homebreds or 

 mongrels, to be found in all parts, many of which 

 prove useful dairy cows, the Alderney. The long- 

 horned breeds generally excel in the quality, the 

 short-horned in the quantity of milk, individuals of 

 the Holderness cows having been known to produce 

 the enormous quantity of nine, and even ten gallons 

 in a day. Such great milkers must necessarily 

 afford but a thin fluid, not so well adapted to the 

 butter-dairy as to the sale of the milk, excepting 

 with respect to that material branch of the dairy 

 business, pig-feeding. The signs of productiveness 

 of milk in the cow are generally " a thin head and 

 neck, clean chaps, free from leather, deep and 



