Dairy Farming. 665 = 399 
Ijed is maintained in its purity by a considerable number 
( farmers ; and it well deserves that it should not be lost. 
] records kept by Mr. Herman Biddell of Playford, near 
Ijwich, who has a larg^e and admirable herd of these cattle, I 
he seen that the milk produced in particular instances has 
a;raged 2*4 to 2*7 gallons daily per cow for 8 J months 
t:ether — to which, in order to learn the full annual yield, must 
I added a certain quantity consumed by the calf till it was 4 or 
J veeks old, and some of the later milkings also which were not 
r orded. The total produce of the 8i months amounted to 
f m 620 to TOO gallons, quite equal to the prdduce of a good 
J'orthorn cow, which would be at least one half heavier and 
Fig. 1.—3L: B. E. Lofffs Norfolk Cow, " Gloss." 
\i jer than the Norfolk. The cattle are grazed on the compara- 
ti>ly poor pastures of the county during summer, and receive 
slw and turnips during Avinter, with a little hay before and 
a r calving, until they can be turned out to grass. 
he two Channel Island breeds — the Guernsey, with its yellow The Guernsey 
ai white larger frame, and the Jersey, fawn or dun, with black Jersey 
pnts and deer-like beauty — are noteworthy dairy breeds, of 
w ch the shortest mention must suffice, for they occupy but an 
ir gnificant place in the list of breeds furnishing the general 
di'y stock of our cheese and butter districts. They are found 
Odsionally, one or two, in any large herd of dairy cattle, for 
tl sake of the added richness thus imparted to the milk ; but it 
