KEEPER

A person whose busine it is fo keep a stock of cows for supplying the public with milk and cream. The principal cow-keepers of the metropolis have their establishments in the suburbs, where they are connected with pasture fields, in which the animals are turned out a portion of every day throughout the year, excepting when the ground is covered with snow, or when it rains very hard. The cows are feil in the house with grains, mangold wurzel, hay, tares, and other kinds of nourishing food; and as the animals get air and exercise, their milk may be considered wholesome. There are many cow keepers, however, in the metropolis, who keep only a few cows in confined back houses, and even in dark cellars, and, while they feed them with rich food, give Ihem no exercise at all: hence the milk of such cows cannot be considered as wholesome. [s. 313]