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farmers seem very crude niid clumsy, compared wiili lliose in the 

 United States, but on the otlicr lumd, they are more substantial and 

 much better made. The English farmers are fast seeing the conve- 

 nience and advantage of our machinery, and are not only using 



much that is made in the United 

 States and Canada, but are design- 

 ing and manufacturing implements 

 ((uite'like our own. English Ag- 

 riculturists freely admit that they 

 liave learned much from Ameri- 

 cans about improving and devel- 



Shire mares generally u.si,*d twi Uu- i'arni.s 



of England. oping farm machinery. 



LIVE STOCK. 



The Englishman is a lover of fine stock, and as a rule has a much 

 better quality than is seen in this country. The horses used on the 

 farms are largely Shires. Being of the heavy draft type, they are fre- 

 quently used singl}^, and very seldom does one man drive more than 

 two horses at a time on the farms. 



Herd of dairy Short-horns which has been bred almost entirely for milk production for 

 twelve years. Average production 6,000 pounds milk per cow per year. White 

 cow standing produced 7,000 pounds milk with first calf, and over 11,000 pounds 

 last year. Average test 3.8 per cent. fat. 



Nearly all the cattle seen in England are Short Horns, w^ith now 

 and then a few Herefords, Devons and Jerseys. Most of the milk of 

 England is produced by millving Short Horns. Several excellent breed- 

 ers of Dairy Short Horns are breeding for milk alone, paying no atten- 

 tion to beef. In this way two classes of Short Horns are being de- 

 veloped that are almost as different as Holstein-Friesians and Aberdeen 

 Angus. 



FEED AND CARE. 



It is estimated that on good land it requires from 2^/^ to 3 acres to 

 keep a cow a year. The cow\s are turned to pasture about the middle 



