Dairy stock : its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed / by John Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, John, 1831-1894.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Dairy stock : its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed / by John Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neys, are of great value, as well as crosses between tlie improved Durham breed and the cattle of Cheshire, Gloucestershire, and other counties. The admixture of foreign blood into our dairies has proved of incalculable value, and the much esteemed short-horns are supposed to have been derived from the western coast of the Continent of Europe, extend- ing from Denmark to the confines of France. But without attempting to determine the crosses of a breed at present recognized as British, in order to estabhsh the fact that importations have been useful, we may simply refer to the influence of one or two Aldemey or Jersey cows, amongst ten or a dozen animals of English or Scottish breed. The quahty of the milk is far superior, and amply repays iov the keep of a cow which gives but a scanty quantity. It will probably be found that the Brittany breed will serve the purpose of delicate and expensive Chan- nel Island cows; and the reader is referred to subse- quent chapters in this book devoted to that breed. With regard to country dairy cows therefore, we limit ourselves to stating that soil, cUmate, and system of culture, influence very considerably the breed ; and, according to the uses to which the milk is applied, are certain cows 'preferred. Thus, in some cases, the dairyman attends to quantity, and others to quality, though both attributes shoidd be observed,