KERRY CATTLE. The Kerry cow, a most valuable milking strain indigenous to Ireland, but not, we believe, imported to the United States, except occasionally by amateurs as a curiosity, are eminently adapted for taking care of themselves on the hills with but little care from their owners. Hardy as they are, they can scarcely compete with our more valuable milking breeds, when feed is so cheap as it is all over collection. In summer its charming foliage and agreeable flowers render it a highly beautiful lawn tree; and in winter, it is certainly one of the most novel trees, in appearance, in our whole native sylva. Like the Ailanthus, it is entirely destitute of small spray, but it also adds to this the additional singularity of thick, blunt, ter minal branches, without any perceptible buds. Altogether it more resembles a dry, dead, and withered combination of sticks, than a living and thrifty tree. Although this would be highly monotonous and displeasing, were it the common appearance of our deciduous trees in winter; yet, as it is not so, but a rare and very unique exception to the usual beautiful diversity of spray and ramification, it is highly interesting to place such a tree as the present in the neighbor hood of other full-sprayed species, where the curiosity which it excites will add greatly to its the United States. In some sections of the more mountainous regions they might, indeed, find a limited range, but here the Swiss cow would probably surpass them. Youatt calls them truly the poor man's cow; living everywhere hardy, yielding for her size abundance of milk of a good quality, and fattening rapidly when required; but they are rather apt to be coarse in the head and deficient in the hind quarter, with a certain cloddiness of the shoulder. They are short-legged, with good hides covered with thick, long hair; their horns are fine, short, and turned upwards; their colors are black, brown, or brindled. They are exceedingly hardy and'
active, almost disposed to wildness; and live on the mountains and moorlands of their native country without shelter or care. The quality of their milk is very good. In an experiment made between the Ayrshires and grade Kerrys—the cross being With the, long-horned Irish, and not calculated to improve the milking of the former —the milk of the Scotch breed required nine and nine-tenths quarts to make a pound of butter, whilst eight and one-fifth quarts of that of the Irish cows yielded a pound of butter; making a yield of one-sixth more butter in favor of the Kerrys. Mr. Bogan, who conducted the experi ment, states that the color of both the milk and butter of the latter was the richer of the two. It must be taken into consideration, though, that the Ayrshires were just imported from Scotland, and had not time to become accli mated. A further experiment, made by the same parties, on the crown estate at King Williamstown, between Galloways, Ayrshires, and Kerrys, resulted as follows: The Galloways averaged six and a quarter quarts per day, 'requiring nine and one half quarts to produce a pound of butter; the Ayrshires gave nine quarts of milk per day, requiring ten and one-fifth quarts to produce a pound of butter; the Kerrys gave seven and a quarter quarts per day, requir ing eight and seven-eighths quarts to produce a pound of butter. The Galloways were but three years old, with their first calf; the Kerrys were four years old, and the Ayrshires six years old In both these trials the Kerrys proved themselves good dairy cows. The cut shows a cow of this breed as it is known in Ireland.