232 CHOICE OF BREEDS COLOUR NO OBJECT. 



The horns of cows which butt and gore others, 

 should be immediately broad-tipped. There is a 

 breed of polled Yorkshire or Holderness cows, some 

 of them of middling size, great milkers, and well 

 adapted to the use of families, where a great quan- 

 tity of milk is required, and where price is no object, 

 and food in plenty. If richer milk and a compari- 

 son of the two famous breeds be desired, one of 

 each may be selected ; namely, the last mentioned, 

 and the other of the Midland county, or long -horned 

 species. Colour is so far 'no object, that neither a 

 good cow nor a good horse can be of a bad colour : 

 nevertheless, in an ornamental view, the sheeted and 

 pied stock of the Yorkshire short-horns make a 

 picturesque figure in the grounds. The Alderney 

 cows yield rich milk upon less food than larger 

 stock, but are seldom large milkers, and I believe, 

 are particularly scanty of produce, and tender in the 

 winter season. They are, besides, worth little or 

 nothing as barreners, not only on account of their 

 small size, but their inaptitude to take on fat, and 

 the ordinary quality of their beef. 



I regretted much to be informed several years since, 

 in Norfolk, that from the difficulties of the times, the 

 old and valuable breed of Suffolk dun cows had been 

 suffered to degenerate, and that there was a danger 

 that it might be even lost. These cows, together with 

 the Alderney and Guernsey, or heifers and yearlings 

 of those breeds, are procured and sent to customers 

 by Mr. Fowler, Little Bushey Farm, near Stanmore, 

 Middlesex, or others in that vicinity ; or by dealers 

 who attend Smithfield market. 



