Show brittany cattle now that we have no longer atly auy pecuniary interest either direct or indirect in brittany cattle we cali can speak freely of them without the risk of exciting a suspicion that the judgment is warped by any financial consideration the tile herd imported from france in 1868 has been sold and we are sorry to say til that at we have not an animal left to which we can attach the value of a dollar we say therefore nw now what modesty always prevented us from froin saying for fear of the misconstruction to which we have a alluded I 1 eded that the tile brittany cow taking her all in all is the most useful and by far the most beautiful and profitable of the bovine species that eliat we have ever owned and we have owned and handled a great many of different breeds of cattle and of various grades during the past twenty years for por the family cow BO so cailey calley called J where only one or two are kept on a small place she hadnot has not her equal in in our opinion for usefulness or for beauty and docility in the world and if wo we had a little country place lace as we hope some time to be ati able abie 0 to have we would not bo be without a genuine brittany we never pretended that this race was eminently adapted to the milk dairy where milk is produced to sell at two cents bonts a quart that Is not the place the brittany is peculiarly culi arly adapted to fill and yet the farmer who had the care of the herd and sold the milk to tot the milk contractors always maintained that the Brittan brnt Brit tanies les ies were s the most profitable cows he had for the reason that they are so very f easily kept and gave so much in proportion ro to their cosh cost he haban had an ayrshire two half jerseys and a large irge grade gnade gin de short hom and had previously t very fair specimens of r natives of low grade cows and yet the Britt annies paid better as milk mrik I 1 producers at two or three cents a I 1 quart the comman price in that neighborhood than any cows in the lot LN oil on their butter there is no discount dist t to be made it is tiie the richest and choicest and highest flavored butter in the world it has that repp reputation tation in pranee prance and our experience per peni peri lence ence fully justifies the high reputation ill in this respect their butter is vastly superior to that of the r jersey not so high colored pe haps but lucli higher flavored even a child not knowing the difference would select it in a moment as decidedly superior to the best specimen of jersey butter we ive t ever saw or tasted the value and usefulness of these little cows is recognized t and appreciated by all who willo have known anything of thein them mr kno knowlton of upton who had one ane of the original 0 rin I 1 importation and has owned her since 1868 told us the other day that she slie was by far the best cow for her inches that t ho he ever over owned and that lie he would not sell lier her for any price A A gentleman who bought a cow tow ow at the auction sale on friday the ath and se sent ut her down to his farin farm the next dayrold day told us last week that his farmer was utterly astonished t at the quantity such a little thing I 1 gave and the excellence of its quality I 1 he bought the cow for about t 70 she has not been dry but once and that for only three weeks since she landed here in it was not possible to dry her off she would give four or five quarts a t lay day straight through the tile winter though every effort was made by feeding oil on nothing but dry liay ilay lay milking 0 once onee a day etc this wint winter we succeeded for the first time in getting r her dry about three weeks be beform before ore calving and they all holdout hold hoid out in in very much the same way they are large and persistent in proportion to thew they size A writer unknown to us in the boston evening 2 transcript alludes to these little pets as they appeared at the sale as follows in un are T the e color is black and white mi mixed in masses as in iri the dutch with a preponderance of the former in size they resemble the kerry but they are am ofa of a finer make the face horns and legs are as fine as those of the jerseys the front line of the tile face is straighter however and this with a little thinness til inness 0 of f the neck suggests the ayrshire the diminutive size of the creatures some somo of them standing but thirty two inches ill high li appears when we note that they a areu ared icelow elow the waistcoat buttons of the person examining them and that the tiie lower leg can be lie more inore than spanned with the thum thumb band and finger we have ilera liere all the tile attractiveness and fanchia tion of without any of that shaggy coarseness generally coup coupled bed led with it in the pony and the kerry cow alis cow as to shape and delicacy of mould seems like a miniature jersey with the fine limb of the antelope and the fine eye of the gazelle it seemed to be conceded that they were very light feeders and greater in proportion to the cost of keep than any of the popular strains the milk seem seemed ed rich if not of the very richest and some of them were sold as giving from eight to ten quarts of it and capable of living well wherever a goat could and as being uniformly gen tle lie he also says the little calves were perhaps the most interesting feature of the show their eyes and noses were coal black and alid the dark portions of their coats bore the same relation to the crow quill jet of the cows that the 4 color of a clipped black horse bears to his natural hue liue a dark mouse color the youngest and tiniest of them thorn all IV was ivas as sold soia last and being but one week old seemed to win all hearts so great was the tho assurance of a happy future in store for such a beauty that she was readily run ip Z to tte the the highest price reache dand was sold at the extraordinary figure age considered of A good sized newfoundland dog looked complacently on as though quite ablerto abie able to swallow the costly morsel without winking Thero the theao journal of the noyal hoyal agri cur cuZ cultural tural society says they are so docile and bear tying up so well besides living on ten pounds of fodder per da day that the breton cow cowls bowis is not reckoned as is part of the luggage of families coming up to town london for the season not only have specimens been purcil purchased ased by wealthy proprietors as a matter of curiosity but rut also dairies set up by those who live by the sale of milk in the environs environs of londea within three days after the tiie sale pale we had a application epli cation after application of the most pressing character for a brittany cow or heifer and from parties to whom price is no object but it was too late they supposed we might have just one more left stowed away in in some corner there is now no herd of thi this q race of cattle in new england there is a gentleman wo we believe a little out of new york city wilo wiio who imported a little herd a year or two ago but we know of no other in the country from what has transpired since the sale and the character of the demand for them we know that we estimated the value of the herd J as an investment for breed breeding ng p purposes ur entirely too low when we stated it last week at 1600 it would have paid a lar larger largen ber ger income than we named on eighteen hundred or two thousand dollars and it is an unspeakable pity that some one did not take it and keep it together the demand forthe family cow a place which the brittany fills more completely and perfectly than any other cow r in tile tilo world is is large larga and constant and it is is just as legitimate farming to aim to supply s this tilis demand as any other r E but ut the little pets are scattered to the tho four winds and we are am sorry for it it is ra rare re that so pretty a herd is seen together get herand and one cow in particular that we called celeste was avas the prettiest creature of the kind when in good condition that we evel set eyes on last summer and fall before calving she silo was a n para paragon gon of beauty and aud yet being a little thin of or flesh she slie went for a song F fat at will cover faults and men farmers too often like to pay for fat when they ou ought gh t to produce rather than buy it if ploughman april 19 |