Town Milk. 
91 
per 8 quarts, which was the price rcccivccl, amounts to 851, 
868, and 891 imperial gallons per stall per annum, or 91, 9?^, 
and 9f quarts respectively per cow per diem. This is where 
about 150 cows were purchased and sold every year at a loss 
varying from 3/. to 4/. a head to keep 100 stalls constantly full. 
The cows were thus kept upon an average 8 months each, and 
two-thirds only of the above quantities, 568, 587, and 594 
gallons are all that was taken from each cow during the 8 months 
it was kept. 
I was informed that 89,236 imperial gallons were obtained 
in one year upon Colonel Talbot's farm at Sudbury from 80 
stalls. The cows were sold earlier than at Golder's Green, 
not being kept longer on the average than six months (153 
having been sold and bought to keep 80 stalls full). In this 
case no less than 1115 gallons was obtained per stall per annum, 
or fully 12 quarts per stall per diem. The cow here yielded 
560 gallons in little more than 6 months ; which is an enormous 
quantity for the average of so large a number as 80. 
I have yet two other cases by which to illustrate this point — ■ 
the small dairy in Islington and the farm at Barking, to both of 
which I have already referred. In the former there are (Jan. 
'68) 17 cows in milk, and they are giving rather over 140 quarts 
a day, or about %\ quarts a-piece ; but many of them are old cows, 
and some, an unusual thing, are in calf and nearly dry. The 
owner tells me that the quantity calculated on in a shed of 20 
Irish cows is an average of 10 quarts a day a-piece. He seldom 
keeps a cow after she gets down to 6 quarts ; and, as he considers 
it does not pay to fatten cows in London, he sells at an average 
loss of 4Z. or bl. a head. Buying them at from 12/. to 18/. 
a-piece, or at an average of 15/., he has generally sold them at 
an average of 11/. He has given me the following account of 
six cows during the past year, Avhich, however, represents more 
than his ordinary experience. 
No. 
When Calved 
or Bought. 
Cost 
apiece. 
Daily Produce in Quarts. 
j June September I 
Till June. \ till | till 
; September. I December. | 
1867 
February b\ 
July' 121 
August 
= { 
16 
13 
1-t 
11 
12 
12 
14 
12 
12 
8 
11 
10 
13 
10 
