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turc lands ? Is it reasonable, while so much labor and 

 manure is applied to mowing and other tilled lands, that 

 our pastures, that are expected to furnish food for our 

 stock for one half the year, should be left to fate and blue- 

 berry bushes ? Altogether too little estimate is put upon 

 the quality of the grasses in our pastures, and if our cows 

 continue to pick a scanty living from May to November, it 

 is thought of little consequence whether the food consists 

 of bushes, brakes, &g., or clover and herdsgrass. This is 

 a great mistake, and milk and butter from a herd of cows 

 kept in pastures abounding in the cultivated grasses, are 

 just as much better, as the beef of a stall-fed ox excels 

 the flesh of a wild buffalo. 



Can we not hope, then, that the day is not far distant, 

 when farmers will feel that it is just as important to be- 

 stow labor and manure on their grazing lands as on their 

 corn-fields, and when the proceeds of the dairy will exceed 

 in amount all other products^of the farm? 



