The Daily Dispatch: September 6, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Queen Victorias farms.

--These are cows at Windsor (says an English paper), which give as much as thirty quarts of milk a day. The Royal short-horned herd is formed partly of cows of good old families, the pedigrees of which may be seen in the Herd Book; partly of well-bred cows, with three or four crosses of the best pure-bred bulls, but not professing to be Herd-Book cattle. So far as could be observed, there does not appear to be any material difference in the milking qualities of the older as compared with the newer families. Nowhere can be seen more clearly, in all its combined merits, the unrivalled practical utility of the Short-Horn; the dairyman's cow when in "profit," the butcher's when not in milk. Let the doubters go and see. There are fifty-eight short-horn cows in milk at the present time, together with fourteen Alderneys, for the supply of cream, milk, and butter, both for Windsor Castle and for Buckingham Palace and when the Queen goes to these places. The and Darry farms are exclusively the lovely Devons, and where the massive Herefords hold their reign," are much farther from the castle, and are both committed to the charge of Mr. Brebner, under the superintendence of General Hood.