Dairy Farmivg. 
is chiefly as the family cow that they are known and prizei 
All round London, where a single cow or perhaps a coup 
suffices to provide the milk and, in part, the butter of the hous 
hold, the Channel Island cow, generally the Jersey, is seen. ( 
course in England, as well as in the islands, there are also co 
■ siderable herds from which the demand for these single cows 
supplied ; but they do not, except in the islands themselves, co 
stitute the dairy stock of any considerable agricultural district 
The Ken-v Some reference to the dairy farm management of Ireland m; 
breed. made in the sequel. The dairy stock of Ireland has becor 
of late increasingly of a Shorthorn character, and large numbe 
of capital stock are annually imported from it into England i 
fattening purposes. The only characteristic Irish breed is t 
diminutive Kerry, red or black, of which the subjoined portr; 
Fig. 8. — Mr. J. Bohertsons Kerry Heifer. 
represents a heifer bred by Mr. Robertson of Santry, n 
Dublin. They are a hardy diminutive race, yielding a r 
milk in, for their size, remarkable quantity. 
I now turn to the four uses of milk, to which reference 
already been made, as covering the whole dairy industry of 
island, with its 1,000,000,000 gallons of milk per annum. 
