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they are small sized, and polled or hornless; the* 

 last a ^reat convenience. The horns of cows 

 which butt and gore others, should be immediately 

 broad tipped. Tiiere is a breed of polled York- 

 shire or Holderness cows, some of them of mid- 

 dling size, great milkers and well adapted to the 

 use' of families, where a great quantity of milk is 

 required, and where price is no object, and food in 

 plenty. If richer milk and a comparison of the 

 two famous breeds be desired, one of each may be 

 selcted, namely, the last mentioned, and the oth- 

 ei of the midland county, or long horned species. 

 Colour is so far no object, that neither a good cow 

 nor a good horse can be of a bad colour; never- 

 iheless, in an ornamental view, the sheeted and 

 pied stock of the Yorkshire short horns, make a 

 picturesque figure in the grounds. 



The Alderney cows yield rich milk upor less 

 food than larger stock, but are seldom large milk- 

 ers, and are particularly scanty of produce in the 

 winter seasons. They are, besides, worth little 

 or nothing as barreners, not only on account of 

 their small size, but their inaptitude to take on fat, 

 and the ordinary quality of their beef. 



To lietermine the economy of a cow. 



The annual consumption of food per cow, if 

 turnrd to grass, is from one acre to an acre and a 

 half in the summer, and from a ton to a ton and a 

 half of hay in the winter, A cow may be allow- 

 ed ^ pecks of carrots per day. The grass being 

 cut and carried, will economize it full one third. 

 The annual product oi" a good fair dairy cow, du- 

 ring several months after calving, and either in 

 eummer or winter, if duly fed and kept in the lat- 



