132 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



otherwise could not be easily, cheaply, or speedily attained. My 

 own conviction is, that in many neighborhoods a change might be 

 made, with comparative ease, from the stock at present kept upon 

 farms, to dairy cows, sufficient to furnish an ample supply of milk 

 within moderate distances, and that the introduction of associated 

 dairies, in good grazing districts, would be attended with much 

 larger returns for the vegetable food consumed by the stock than 

 I is now obtained. 



\ 



