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Town Milli. 
Of a small shabby-looking little cow I saw there the other day 
the following; liistory was given me : — She was in heavy milk 
whon attacked by the cattle plague in the summer of 186(5, which 
of course entirely stopped her milk. She recovered, however, and 
her average produce amounted to twenty quarts a day for nearly 
three months after her recovery. It averaged seventeen quarts 
a day during the next six months ; and twelve quarts a da^ for 
another six months ; and it is now shrinking rapidly, as she is 
in calf; but she is still giving seven quarts a day. We occa- 
sionally meet with extraordinary examples of this kind, where 
cows remain for years together in milk without breeding ; 
but, like all other agricultural maxima, they have little or no 
influence on the general average of experience. 
I have now to relate the experience of a year at Lodge Farm, 
Barking, notwithstanding that, owing to the disaster in August, 
when more than half the cattle were slaughtered by orders of the 
Cattle Plague Inspector, the returns do not so accurately repre- 
sent ordinary experience as would otherwise have been the case. 
I give in the following table the number of cows milked each 
week up to the end of 1SG7, the quantity of milk sold each week, 
and the daily average per cow during each week. It will be 
seen that 126 cattle were killed in the middle of August. We 
have not ventured to purchase again till lately. Twenty newly 
calved cows were bought two months ago, and are now averaging 
rather more than three gallons a day apiece. But there are a 
large number of cows giving hardly more than six or seven 
quarts a day upon an average, which have been long at the pail, 
and v/hich there is no profit in fattening. Most of them accord- 
ingly have been got in calf, and are drying rapidly. This, of 
course, is much against the average of the year. On the other 
hand, a large number of cows were killed off in full milk. So 
that while there are a hundred cows or more which have been 
ten or eleven months at the pail, and which pull down the 
annual average, there are more than a hundred on the list of 
the year which were only two or three months in milk when 
slaughtered ; and, they, on the other hand, contributing more 
than the ordinary daily quantitv, increase the average. It will 
be found on an examination of the following table that about 
lolt,746i gallons have been given in 65 weeks by 57,334 days' 
milk of a cow. This is equal to rather more than 9h quarts a 
day per cow ; Avhich very closely resembles Mr. Panter's expe- 
rience at Golder's Green. See opposite page. 
The true significance of these figures will perhaps better appear 
if the amounts which they indicate for twelve months be taken 
out. In the table at p. 94 accordingly! have given the quantity 
