Patrick Manson and Dairy Farm Company Limited in Hong Kong

HF: I have copied these extracts from Nigel Cameron’s book, The Milky Way, without seeking the permission of either Mr Cameron or, I think its publisher SS Design & Production, Hong Kong. If I am contacted by either the author or publisher asking me to withdraw these extracts I will do so immediately.

Patrick Manson was the founder of the Dairy Farm Company Limited. The cow, the culminating achievement of centuries of unscientific, and of about two centuries of more or less scientific breeding in the West, at last arrived in numbers in the East and was set to work in controlled conditions. There were cows in China