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STOCK RAISING. 



BREEDING FARM STOCK- 



BY C. HORACE HUBBARD, OF SPRINGFIELD. 



In tlie hasty and crude suggestions which I propose to 

 offer for the purpose of opening the discussion upon this 

 8ul)ject, of such momentous importance to the farmers of 

 Vermont, it is my purpose to recognize the wide difference 

 of principk^ wliicli too often, perhaps I would be justitied 

 in saying usually, governs the breeder of so nmch of the 

 thorougli-bred stock of the country as is deserving of the 

 epithet " fancy stock "" — stock that is bred and trained with 

 the object of gratifying the fancy of the amateur, and to be 

 sold at prices far beyond its intrinsic value for beef, milk, 

 or improving the common stock of the coimtry, and tliat 

 wliicli must control the farmer whose aim is to rear stock 

 that shall pay him tlie best income for the feed consumed 

 aud the lal)or expended in its care. The design of tlie 

 breeder of the former class of stock is to produce animals 

 which, in strains of blood, color, marking and " points." 

 shall meet the po})uLir demand, as it may exist at the time ; 

 while, on the otiier liand, the farmer is bound by everv 



