Ireland. Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Coyne, William P · Dublin [etc.] : Browne and Nolan, limited · leaf 457
hey are, in general, good milkers—eight pottles or sixteen quarts a day being no uncommon produce from a cowof three hundredweight. The usual price for a new milch cow of this descrip-tion is from eight to ten guineas. Small beasts of all kinds are preferred by the lyj 1 A *Mii >■ r a1 ^ ■ ~-w… … THE IRISH CATTLE INDUSTRY. 361 farmers, as being better suited to the circumstances of the country, and morecapable of enduring hardship, and more easily subsisted. The views expressed by David Low about Kerries, nearly half a centuryago, are of special interest at the present time. He says:— These…
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