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possesses the strongest blood, as we say, or the strongest 

 power of transmission. 



But there is no advantage in using a low-bred animal on 

 either side if it can be avoided, because, supposing you have 

 an equally strong accumulation of good qualities in the male 

 and the female, then you get not only this perfection of form, 



. but you also get an offspring which will correspond to the 

 parents, and consequently will be much more valuable on that 

 account. There is one advantage which the farmer has in 

 1)reeding from pure stock, that the offspring, — the calves, the 

 lambs or the pigs, whatever they are, — will be worth so much 

 more, and will command so much more money. It is so 

 much addition to the annual income. 



Mr. Wetherell. Why is it that in using a thorough-bred 

 Shorthorn bull upon a low type of what is called the native 

 cow, or stock without pedigree, that the progeny from that 

 cow will often outweigh, for beef purposes, an animal begotten 

 from a grade heifer or a half-blood. Why is it that in the 

 New York market grade stock often sells better than the pure- 

 bred stock? 



Mr. Flint. The mother of the offspring, — the common 

 cow, — is ordinarily a better milker than the pure-bred mother, 

 particularly in that breed. Now, a mother that is ia large 

 milker will produce a calf that will grow faster and often 

 make a larger and better animal than a calf from a pure-bred 

 cow ; therefore I say that when breeding for large and valu- 

 able calves it is often wise to breed from a grade or common 

 cow, if she is a large milker, with a pure-bred Shorthorn bull, 



' than from a higher ])red cow, when the object is to raise ani- 

 mals for the butcher. 



The Chairman. I have been requested to call upon a 

 gentleman who is not at present a member of the Board, but 

 who I understand is a coming member of the Board ; and that 

 is, Dr. Wakefield, of Monson ; and as they say "there is 

 safety in a multitude of counsellors," I presume he will assist 

 Dr. Allen and Prof. Agassiz on that point. 



Dr. Wakefield, of Monson. It has been stated here that 

 there are different kinds of monkeys, and there are different 

 kinds of men. There are the long-winded and the short- 



