2 FIELD AND FERN. 



attempted tlie Lowlands. "We had done, to our 

 boundless joy, ■with " the deep-sea sailings" at last ; 

 but there was nothing we specially cared for in 

 Glasgow, except the monster dairy. It lies among 

 a frowning forest of chimneys, and was reached 

 through mud and mire, now over a tram-road, now 

 across a canal, and finally past a manufactory where 

 horses are boiled into glue by the score. 



Mr. Harvey's byres are distinguished by different 

 names— '^The Parlour,'^ '^ The . Thistle," "The Hal- 

 low-een," ^^The Waterloo/' "The Malakhoff," and 

 so on. There were some 1,700 cows and queys in 

 all, and about 1,000 of them in milk, and feeding on 

 turnip, cut straw, and distilled grains. The bulls, 

 which stand with them, are mostly shorthorns, and 

 so are 800 of the milch cows ; the rest are Ayrshires, 

 with the exception of a few polls and recently a sprink- 

 ling of Dutch. They stand in long ranks tail to tail, 

 and the scourings fall into the gutters behind them, 

 which are duly flushed down. Hence each beast has 

 to be very accurately told off, on her arrival, into a 

 byre, whose stallage exactly suits her length. In 

 some of the byres there is only one line of cows, and 

 the calves are in small partitions opposite them. 

 About fifty of the queys are kept each j^ear, and go 

 as yearlings and two-j^ar-olds to Parks down the 

 Clyde, and the rest are dismissed as "slink veal'^ (to 

 adopt the term of the trade) to the butcher soon after 

 they are calved. Thirteen cows are allotted to each 

 milker, seven of whom live on the spot, and the rest 



