Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

140 CATTLE.
however, is of an extraordinarily excellent quality, and gives more butter
per quart than can be obtained from the milk of any other cow.
Some writers on agricultural subjects have, however, denied this.
The milk of the Alderney cow fits her for the 1
situation in which she
is usually placed, and where the excellence of the article is regarded,
and not the expense : but it is not rich enough, yielding the small
quantity that she does, to pay for what she costs. On the South
coast of England, there is great facility in obtaining the Alderney
cattle, and they are great favorites there.
One excellence it must be acknowledged that the Alderneys possess
; when they are dried, they fatten with a rapidity that would be
scarcely thought possible from their gaunt appearance, and their
want of almost every grazing point, while living.
Some have assigned to the Norman or Alderney cattle a share in
the improvement of the old short-horns ; but the fact does not rest
on any good authority.
EAST INDIAN CATTLE.
Several varieties of these have been imported, and attempts made
to naturalize them, but with varied success, and among them the
Nagore cattle.