labor, and at least nine other useful articles which may be easily found out. A good common cow will yield from three to five gallons of milk, or will produce a pound of butter each day during a portion of the year.

Our old cow has some fine relations that have been kept in distinct families for a great many generations. Some of these, dressed in their best clothes, were seen by the Perrys at the State Agricultural Fair. There was a great circular space or show ring into which the families were led. First came the Ayrshires. They are a Scotch family, have rather long, spreading horns, and, in color, are red and white. They yield a large quantity of milk and butter.

Then came large black and white cows with short, curved horns and immense udders. They are the Dutch or Holstein cows. They were brought from the lowlands of Holland, where dairy-maids milk the cows, and where the cowstable joins the kitchen and is kept as clean as the kitchen. The owner of these cows showed one animal which produced more than twentysix thousand pounds of milk in one year, or an average of over eight gallons a day.

No cow will yield much milk or butter without a plenty of food; nor can she produce rich milk or butter without rich food. The best cow is one that makes the most of her food.

PART 2.

BUT who are these?

They are nimble and

bright, with small heads, prominent black eyes, small, dark horns, and black noses encircled by light fillets. Their hoofs, their tongues, and the switches of their tails are nearly black; and their bodies are clothed with a soft fawn or squirrelcolored coat. A few of them only have spots of white. Ah! these are the Jerseys. Perrys know them at once, for they saw dainty little Jerseys at Colonel Mayfield's.

The

The Jersey family came from the island of the same name in the English Channel. Near by this island are two other islands called Alderney and Guernsey. At first, a few of these cattle were shipped to this country from Alderney, and from this circumstance many people have been accustomed to call the Jerseys Alderneys.

The Guernsey cows are larger than the Jerseys, and are not so handsome. They have large heads, light-colored noses, and parti-colored coats. The Channel Island cows, in their native homes, are tethered on the grass, tended, petted, and milked by dairy-maids, and are kind and gentle. All give extremely rich milk, which makes deeply colored, golden butter.

Matilda 4th, a superior Jersey, during one

month, produced an average of twenty-six pounds and four ounces of butter a week. Her yield for the year was nine hundred and fifty pounds.

The Perry children were greatly pleased with the beef families. The round, dark-red Devons, with graceful white horns, came stepping along

as lively as horses. They were originally from Devonshire in England. They are the best cattle for the yoke, and some of the cows are good for milk and butter. Following them were the showy Herefords, another English breed. Their white faces, white horns, and white breasts made a gay contrast with their blood-red coats.

Lastly, the Durhams or Shorthorns waddled into the ring, as if their great, fat bodies were too heavy a load for them to carry. The coats of some of them were peppered with red and salted with white. They are called roan-colored. The most of them were deep, solid red, and are called Roses of Sharon. "What huge bodies! What little heads! What small horns!" the children all exclaimed. It was difficult to think of them as near relations of the common, homely old cow.

And then the Angus and the Galloway cattle appeared. They are Scottish breeds; are large, jet black, and polled or hornless.

42. CUD-CHEWERS.

WHO would believe that there are school children in the large cities of America who have never seen a cow? Such children there certainly are. They live in narrow and crowded streets where Bos and her friends never come. They may have seen her picture, and may have read Mother Goose's account of "the cow with a crumpled horn." They may have tasted her milk; but beyond this they know little of a living cow.

Children in the country are more highly favored. They see cows every day. Let us ask

them how much they really know about the cow. They know that she has two horns; that she mows and hurries away her grass without waiting to chew it, and that she occasionally stops eating, pokes out her head and chews cud.

How many of them can tell whether the cow's horns are solid or are hollow; or how many toes she has on each foot; or how many nipping teeth, if any, she has on her upper jaw; or whether she has one stomach or more than one; or where the cud comes from which she chews, and where it goes after she has chewed it?

The cow has four stomachs, one of which is