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rather flat carcase, wide hips, the bones perhaps 

 inclined to be pointed, capacious udder, and large 

 plain milk-vein ; the last two signs worth all the 

 rest." New Farmers Calendar. 



The next considerations for a private buyer, are, 

 SELECTION, and the means within his power to make 

 it. These will depend materially on his situation, 

 and whether his aim be to obtain something capital 

 in this way, or to be content with the choice offered 

 him by the markets or fairs of his vicinity. In the 

 former case, his only method is recourse to some 

 salesman or jobber, on whom he can depend, to 

 supply him with a milch beast of the highest reputed 

 established breed, for which he must expect to allow 

 a proportionate price. Should he prefer to take 

 pot-luck nearer home, let him beware of relying on 

 his own judgment solely, unless that be very mature, 

 for cow-jobbers and horse-jockeys have ever been 

 cater-cousins ; and I, who have considerable expe- 

 rience of them both, have never seen the least 

 symptoms of their probable degeneration. He 

 ought to be reminded, also, of another fact, lest 

 his expectations should be too sanguine ; it is that 

 great and deep milking are sufficiently rare, even in 

 our most milky breeds, and that among cows, great 

 milkers are about as scarce as good horses. In- 

 deed, this produce is so extremely valuable, that a 

 constant great milker is worth almost any price, 

 will amply repay the highest expense of keep, and 

 should be kept to the latest period of her age, 

 should her milking continue. On the other hand, 

 no cow should be kept beyond the period of good 



