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accommodated. It is generally most advantageous 

 to have a fresh five-year-old beast in full milk, that 

 is to say, with her calf a few days old by her side, 

 or she nearly ready to calve. The calf may be 

 either immediately sold as a suckler, suckled at 

 home for the butcher, or reared, according to cir- 

 cumstances; but the first method is doubtless the 

 most profitable, milk, butter, and pork, being arti- 

 cles of the greater worth and convenience. If a 

 small, common-bred, low-priced cow be the object, 

 no other consideration is necessary than her health, 

 age, and milky indications, particularly that she 

 have large tackle, in plain English a capacious 

 udder, and that she be a quiet milker. This last is 

 a matter of some consequence, since it is not quite 

 sufficient that a cow produce a large quantity of 

 milk, unless she will also render it quietly, and suffer 

 you to take it away. The sooner a cow is milked 

 dry after purchase, the better, since they are inva- 

 riably stocked for sale ; that is, their milk is suffered 

 to remain perhaps two days, in order to distend the 

 udder to the utmost, by way of recommendation : a 

 cruel and absurd trick, by which these animals are 

 tortured, and many of them annually ruined, from 

 inflammation of the milk-vein, and coring of the 

 distended parts. 



As to a CHOICE of BREEDS for a private family, 

 none in England, probably, combine so many ad- 

 vantages as the Suffolk dun cows. They excel both 

 in quantity and quality of milk ; they feed well after 

 they become barren; they are small sized, and 

 polled or hornless ; the last a great convenience. 



