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year. This average dilTers very little from the average produce 

 of the best dairies of Gt. Eritaiu; so little as hardly to make it 

 worth noticing. In Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania, and some of the Western States, especially Ohio, the 

 average produce of the best dairies is very similar to the above. 

 This may be easily ascertained by consulting some of the agricul- 

 tural periodicals of the day, and also Transactions of the State 

 Agricultural Society of New-York, wh.ere some reliable statistics 

 may be found. 



The points ot a good animal of the improved race of Yorkshire 

 Durhams, as given by the best and latest English writers, say, 

 " a milch cow good for the pail as long as she is wanted, and 

 then quickly got into marketable condition, should have a long, 

 with rather a small head, a large headed cow will seldom fatten 

 or yield much milk. The eye should be briglit, yet with a 

 peculiar placidness and quietness of expression, the chops thin, 

 and the horns small. The neck may be thin towards the head, 

 but it must soon begin to thicken, especially when it approaches 

 the shoulder. The dewlaps should be small, the breast, if not so 

 wide as some, should not be narrow, and it should project before 

 the legs, the chine, to a certain degree fleshy, and even inclining 

 to fullness ; the girth behind the shoulder, deeper than is usually 

 found in the short horns ; the ribs spread out wide so as to give 

 as globular a form as possible to the carcass, and each should 

 project further than the preceding one, to the very loins, ribbed, 

 as is called, home; common consent has given to her large milk 

 veins ; a large milk vein indicating a strongly developed vascular 

 system, one favorable to secretion, and to that of milk among the 

 rest. The udder should rather incline to be large in proportion 

 to the animal, but not too large ; skin thin, and free from lumps 

 in every part of it, the teats of a moderate size. The quantity 

 given by some of these is very great ; it is not uncommon for 

 them, in the beginning of summer, to yield 30 quarts a day. 

 There arc rare instances of their yielding 3G quarts ; the average 

 is about 23 to 24. The milk, however, is not so rich in its pro- 

 duce of butter as the long horn, the Scotch, Devon or Alderney." 



This Yorkshire Durham breed is probably more universally 

 sx)read through. Great Britain tlian any of the choice breeds. Its 



