‘time, when on good keep. 
DAIRYING. 
milk being hele _ And it i 18 taded, oe oo a pee 
nefs of their hides; and the Scotch is probably better than 
ee 
moft proper for bleak expofed fituations. And as many o 
ds 
‘the mixed-breeds afford excellent milkers, and in mot of 
the genuine breeds there are great differences in the indivi- 
duals, it may be the 0 
y-farmers, i it 
y Mr. Rudge, that thofe neat cattle are in ge- 
kept t which have the ags, Ride ch are the 
the animal bei of 
a deration, 
ae not wholly overlooked, 
I 
them. Although feveral varieties have been introduced, in 
fome of the old dairies, the Glougefterfhire breed is ftill 
much valued ;. yet few ftocks are met with in the coun- 
‘ty in which there is not fome mixture, and perhaps ftill 
fewer in which the “ a cuie old flock is preferved.”? It 
is added, that this breed differs but little i in its general ap~ 
horns of a middling length, white in colour, having a black 
tip at the. ends, the bag by no means ficthy, but large, af- 
fording a great deal of milk, and continuing it for a long 
They have generally a flight 
ftreak of white running along the back, and conftantly on 
the rump end of the tail. They are light in the carcafe, 
ommonly weighing from eight to nine {core the quarter. 
mi ek is faid to be ee rich in quality than in fome 
the ete oecupiers encourage ‘the fame kind. 
e Devo nfhire fort are e likewife admired by fome for this ufe 
tended to and afcertained by proper trials; as it has been 
found, by a pe in the vicinity o evizes, Wiltthire, 
o, as well as his father before him, has been in the 
en that town with 
pa oe thirty Ube Biven the preference to the Devonfhire 
the fame pric being, on the whole, the be 
milkers. The Suffo ike don are found in fome inftances, in 
this diftrit, milking indifferently well, and having much 
propentity to fatten 
But a crofs of the Gloucefterfhire breed with that of the 
pur 
pole i in the moft perfe& manner ; fome of this fort of cows 
ed and the long-horned are therefore the 
f 
affording from two to three gallons or more of milk at each 
time of milking. 
In‘Chefhire the cows.of the dairy-farmers are ou d 
of almoft all the different forts or breeds: and, according 
to Mr. Holland, fome perfons prefer “ halfbred cattle from 
who prefer a half breed between the Chefhire and the Welth ; 
whilft a crofs between the Lancafhire and Holderneffe, and 
one between the Lancafhire and Welfh, have alfo their 
advocates.” 
Tt is ftated, that on the better forts of land, “a breed 
partaking of ‘the fhort-horned Holderneffe, or the long- 
horned Lancafhire, feems to be the moft prevalent.’’? * While, 
on the inferior forts of land, ‘* a middle-fized fhort- “leased 
breed, with a crofs of the Welfh in them, are the m 
ferred.” 
The improved breeds do not appear 
The cows that are bred upon the land 
are found, it is faid, to anfwer beft. ‘The cows kept for the 
purpofe oF the Chefhire dairies, it is fuppofed, will not, on 
the average, weigh more than feven fcores the quarter, when 
It is found and admitted in this diftri€t, that tbis 
jo} 
go 
oO 
fat) 
~o 
—s 
s 
fan 
Where cows are found to be 
too frequently kept for abi a until of little value for any 
other. “ An oldc give more milk than a young 
one, b 
to keep her in a condition, and in full m 
proper age ; which is thought to be ace four and ten 
years ; but there are many wh t ‘a that a milker is not 
in prime till five roe old.” e Cow 
the rearing of you eek in ss diftri, the 
calves are phe from o beft milkers, a cuftom which 
the females fa are 
warm green whey, {c b k mixed, 
or hard fleetings ; of which latter forts of food, ae five 
quarts conftitute a meal for each calf: but with the firft 
kind or green ye siserd is often 
wheat, or bean-fiou the proportion of about a quart to 
forty or fifty fais ‘i be lau whi ch is fufficient for a 
meal for ten calves. e flax feed is had recourfe 
to, a quart of the boiled feed is given, in addition to the 
A gruel made with 
morning, as foo 
cond winter they ree ae dry food of Gea having an open 
fhed near the pafture for an occafional fhelter, but which is 
The fummer ae the heifers, 
e bull. Inthe 
calving time ; 
tied up at the fame time with the milking. cows Shae fa 
each cafe, fed, with ftraw, night and moves till abou ta 
month before clvng: See Carr-Rgaring 
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