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suffer. Besides, it often happens that when such young heifers fall in 

 calf, they miss in the following year, and thus nothing is gained in the 

 stock, while to the animal itself it is evidently injurious. It should also 

 be arranged that the young heifer should calve in the months of May or 

 June, when the grass is most succulent, and a greater abundance of milk 

 will be afforded. 



Leaving this important subject to the serious consideration of the 

 reader, I will conclude by advising the breeder not to permit his bulls to 

 propagate their species until they are two years old ; nor should they be 

 used on the same farm more than two or three years, otherwise he will 

 soon have amonsf his stock the commencement of that deterioration 

 which accompanies the "in and in" system. No more than twenty 

 -cows should be allotted to one bull, nor should the same animal be per- 

 mitted to serve more than two cows in one day. He may then expect from 

 good sires and dams a healthy and beautiful progeny, an ornament to a 

 farm, profitable to its owner, and a pride to the State in which they are 

 reared. 



CATTLE BREEDING. 



Green Bay, November 25, 1852. 



Dear Sir: — Agreeably to your request that I should prepare a paper 

 upon cattle breeding, I reply, that I am a great admirer of good breeds 

 of cattle, and that a fine ox, cow, or bullock always receives my particu- 

 lar attention and approbation. 



In treating upon this subject, there seems to be three things necessary to 

 be taken into consideration, in order to enable the Wisconsin farmer to 

 pursue successfully this branch of business, viz : the kind of stock to 

 breed from, the method of breeding, and the profit and loss ; for, while 

 be may be induced to send East and procure blooded stock, so called, 

 at a great expense, and while he may, by great care and attention, suc- 

 ceed in raising a very fine stock of cattle, still, when he comes to balance 

 the account between himself and his cattle, he will find that they are 

 indebted to him in a greater amount than they will bring in any market, 

 and that, instead of being engaged in a profitable business, he has lost 

 money by the operation. This fancy system of farming may do well 



