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quantity of milk, the butter it yields is astonishing ; a single 

 cow has been known to give nineteen pounds of butter 

 weekly for several successive weeks. This, of course, is a 

 very rare and remarkable occurrence; the average is from 

 six to eight or nine pounds weekly, during the season, sup- 

 posing the cow to be first-rate of her kind. 



Meagre as the Alderney cow is when in milk, and unlikely 

 as she may appear in the eyes of the grazier, it is never- 

 theless a fact, that, when dried, she fattens with great rapidity. 

 This property in the ox is very valuable ; and though fat 

 Alderney cattle are not often seen in the London market, 

 some have been occasionally exhibited at the Smithfield 

 Cattle Show. One exhibited in 1802 by the Duke of Bedford 

 weighed (the four quarters) 95 st. 3 Ibs., exclusive of inside 

 fat, which was 17 st. 3 Ibs., Smithfield weight (8 Ibs to the 

 stone). 



The Alderney cattle are generally of a mingled white and 

 sandy-red, or fawn colour; the latter being mostly disposed 

 in large, abrupt patches 



