CHOICE AND TREATMENT OF THE COW. 37 



(2.) The Suffolk, a hornless red breed, is of great excel- 

 lence for the dairy. Like all good dairy animals, its cows 

 are narrow and small before, compared with the develop- 

 ment of the hind-quarters. They are good milkers, and 

 as the Suffolk dairies are mostly managed for the produc- 

 tion of butter, the milk is of tolerably good quality. 

 The Suffolk breed yields probably a larger quantity of 

 milk in proportion to its size than any other in the 

 island, and it deserves therefore more attention, as 

 furnishing suitable animals for small home dairies, than, 

 except in its own district, it has received. The polled 

 Suffolk cow is purchasable at almost any of the fairs in 

 Suffolk and the adjoining counties. 



(3.) The Jersey and Guernsey breeds, in which, faults as a 

 fattening animal, and merits as a milk producer, generally 

 both in an exaggerated form, are combined, are the 

 favourites of the small or household dairy. The great, 

 almost deer-like beauty of the head, and indeed, in well-bred 

 Jersey cattle, of their whole form, makes it an ornament 

 to the park ; the unequalled richness of its milk enables it 

 to meet a demand for cream ; and its small size makes it 

 at once less mischievous in winter in the field, and more 

 easily managed in the house. The quality of its milk is so 

 good, that not unfrequently one (or more) of this breed is 

 kept even in large dairies, where the large-framed York- 

 shire cow forms the majority of the herd, for the sake of 

 the enrichment of their produce by the mixture of its own. 

 The best fair at which to purchase Channel Island cows is 

 that held on Trinity Monday at Southampton. Sales by 

 auction are, however, almost weekly advertised in the 

 London papers, where these, and other imported breeds, 

 are offered. The price reached is 20 guineas, and higher, 



