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for a well-bred young cow. The fawn-like Jersey has an 

 equal rival in the yellow and white Guernsey, a larger 

 cow, yielding as much or more milk of an equal quality, 

 with a frame and character hetter calculated either to carry 

 heef or to admit of crossing with other heef-producing 

 breeds. Mr. Hosley, of Audley End, near Saffron Walden, 

 has lately published the results of three years' records of 

 dairy yield in Lord Braybrooke's Jersey herd. The average 

 yield of cream over the entire herd in 1882, 1883, and 

 1884 has been 15*5, 15*8, and 14'7 per cent, of the milk 

 respectively ; the highest in any cow was no less than 

 33-0, 32'0, and 32*5 respectively. The yield of butter from 

 milk varied from 54- to 17 J ounces per gallon in different 

 cows, the average being 9, 9 J, and 8 J ounces per gallon over 

 the whole herd in the three years ; the milk to a pound of 

 butter on the average was 7, 6-J, and^7J quarts in 1882, 

 1883, and 1884 respectively ; and the total yield of milk 

 we have already reported as varying from 750 to 3600 

 quarts per annum. It is plain that a breed, of which this 

 is a possible record, must possess the very highest dairy 

 value. 



(4.) The Ayrshire, though too small for the productive 

 pastures of our English dairy districts, and involving, 

 owing to the greater number that must be kept on a given 

 extent of ground, more labour than the larger dairy breeds 

 there prevalent, is one of the most useful dairy animals we 

 have. It possesses more perfectly, perhaps, than any other 

 sort, the external features which a good dairy cow ought to 

 exhibit, and withal, it displays a greater aptitude to fatten 

 than other small dairy cattle generally have. It yields 

 a remarkable quantity of excellent milk, which, if less rich 

 than that of the Guernsey or Jersey cow, is better adapted 



