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of the Ayrshire dairy stock. He had heard of 16 

 or 18 pints (28J- to 32 quarts) being talien from a 

 cow every day, but had never seen so much.' 



In 1829 William Harley states "as the average for 

 the Harleiau daily, 12 quarts per day." This is 

 4,380 quarts a year. It will be remembered, how- 

 ever, that in this dairy the cattle were kept in very 

 high condition, and were continually being turned for 

 the butcher ; and these high figures do not represent 

 the average for a cow, but only for the average num- 

 ber kept during the year. Mr. Harley bought one 

 very large fine cow at a high price. This cow gave 

 tor a considerable time 40 quarts a day. He had a 

 number of other very fine cows which, when newly 

 calved and highly fed, produced from 25 to 30 quarts 

 per day." 



Dr. Voelcker,* of England, writing in 18G3, men- 

 tions a cow bought by the Duke of Athol from Mr. 

 Wallace, Kirklandholm, and probably in his Grace's 

 dairy at Dunkeld House at the present time, that pro- 

 duced 13,456 pounds (6,258 quarts) of milk from 

 the 11th of April, 1860, to the 11th of April, 

 1861.' 



In Morton's Farmer's Almanack for 1866, the 

 average annual yield per cow in five known dairies 

 is given at 4,992 pints, but which is stated to be 

 above the average of ordinary grass-fed cows.' 



Alton's Survey of Ayrshire, p. 428. 

 Harleian iJairy System, pp 87 and 106. 

 Jour, of R. A 8. of Eng. 1863, p. 308. 

 Journ. R. A. R. of Eng. 1863, p. 3u8. 

 Quoted in Pr. Essays H. 8oc. 1866-7, p. 78 



