50 
On the Jersey, misnamed Alderney, Coxo. 
On one or two farms besides General Fouzel's, butter is made 
from clouted cream in the Devonshire mode ; but as this is not 
peculiar to Jersey, it is not noticed further than that 10 lbs. of 
butter are usually made in five minutes by this process. The 
usual way of procuring the cream is by placing the milk in pans 
about 6 inches deep — the glazed shallow earthenware having 
taken place of the unglazed deep vessels. 
It is admitted that the richest milk and cream are produced by 
cows whose ears have a yellow or orange colour within. Some of 
the best cows give 26 quarts of milk in twenty-four hours, and 
14 lbs. of butter from such milk in one week. Such are rare. 
Good cows afford 20 quarts of milk daily, and 10 lbs. of butter 
weekly, in the spring and summer months. Butter is made every 
second or third day. 
Lactometers indicate the degrees of richness, or cream, which 
the milk of any cow affords, with great nicety. This varies with 
different food. The mode is to fill the lactometer up to zero 
with the first milk that is drawn from the cow in the morning; 
then, when the udder is nearly emptied, to fill a second lactometer 
with the residue of the milk, throwing a little out of the lactometer, 
to refill it to zero with the very last drops which can be drawn 
from the cow : these will be nearly all cream. The lactometer 
filled with the first milking may only indicate 4 degrees of cream, 
while that filled with the last milking may indicate 40 degrees of 
cream. Then, by dividing the sum total, 44, by 2, we have 22 
degrees of cream, which a very good cow will produce ; others so 
little as 10 or 15. 
Jersey butter, made when the cows are partially fed on parsnips, 
or white carrots and grass, in Sej)tember and October, when 
salted and potted will keep till the following spring, preserving 
as well as Irish butter, with a much less rank flavour. 
The present price of the best Jersey cows, including points 
and quality, is from 20/, to 30/. ; and up to 20/. is given for the 
best heifers. Yearling bulls, of the best breed and points, from 
10/. to 15/. 
III. — Further Account of the Tussac Grass. In a Despatch 
from "the Governor of the Falkland Islands. Communicated 
by Lord Stanley. 
My Lord, — A settler, named Jergen Christian DetlefT, is de- 
sirous of forwarding to England, to be offered for sale, a parcel 
containing 6 lbs of tussac seed : as he is of the labouring class, 
and unacquainted with business, he requested permission to for- 
ward it through me. I now do so, and venture to address it to 
