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also repay a gentle dairymaid "vvitli their love, as tliey 

 sometimes answer to their names, and we have seen 

 them follow and fawn upon her, just like dogs, in a 

 field. 



In warm weather there is more cheese from the 

 milk, but the cream does not come up so well. One 

 cow will generally make about 10 stone of 241bs. • 

 but if forced with 2 or 3 lbs. of bean-meal, even on 

 grass she will go as high as 13 stone. About Kil- 

 marnock they give this stimulant all the season, after 

 milking in a little whey. In very rare instances, 

 when she has been " milkit to the bone^^ on bran 

 and bean-meal, a cow has gone as high as thirty 

 quarts a day, three weeks after calving. A heifer 

 can be got as high as eight to twelve quarts with her 

 first calf j still she is not in the sv-ing of her milk till 

 she has had a third or, fourth calf, and all good 

 managers contrive to have her at least six weeks or 

 two months dry. 



If the vessel slips avray, the system is evidently 

 failing, and the milk becomes poorer. They will last 

 up till eight or nine, and we have known them to go 

 on to fifteen and upwards, if they do not take a weed in 

 one of their quarters (of which cold shivering is one 

 of the first indications), as very few people will work 

 a cow with three teats. Mr. Harvey of Glasgow 

 generally buys cows at six years old and upwards, as 

 they stand the byre confinement better.* The im- 



* The following details of this leviathan daii-y have recently appeared in 

 the Agricultural Gazette : — " There are several Glasgow distilleries, Mr. 

 Harvey's among the number, and the spent malt (draff) and spent liquor 



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