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tural Society, and as they agree with that, is the exhibition more or less deserving. Some 

 things he commends, other things furnish him a text for commentary, and as the people, 

 in a country where the best of unimproved lands can be had for fifteen to twenty dollars an 

 acre, have not as yet under-drained all their swamps, at an expense of twenty' to thirty dol- 

 lars the acre, he has made up his mind (another original idea) that as "yet in New-Eng- 

 land and New-York, there is no such thing as local attachment — the love of a place because 

 it is a man's own — generally speaking every farm, from Eastport in Elaine, to Buffalo on 

 Lake Erie, is for sale!" Accommodating people, most truly! Thence follows a homily 

 on the superior production of land where the owner of the soil and its cultivator, hold 

 the relative attitudes of landlord and tenant, upon which his remarks are quite as pro- 

 found as a stickler for the cast-oif feudal usages of Europe may be supposed, winding up 

 by an equivocal compliment to " our respected Yankee cousins." 



" In the New-England states and in New-York the Devon blood>pvevails. Most of the 

 stock are grmdes, as they are called, or crosses of the pure Devoh bull Avith the older 

 stock of the ceuntrjs which is originally of mixed English and Dutch of various kinds. 

 The cows exhibited were nearly all Devons, and there was a beautiful Devon bull in the 

 yard which had been bred in Canada. In the Western and South-Western states the Short- 

 horn blood predominates, and of this blood there were some good specimens exhibited." p. 

 165, vol. 1. An astute agricultural professor, most truly,' Mho, in the Provinces, a fort- 

 night before this, atTected to be a judge of cattle! The veriest tyro on earth, who had ever 

 slept a night on a stock farm in " New-England or New-York," would deserve to have 

 his ears soundly boxed for a remark betraying such profound ignorance and stupidity. 

 Did Mr. Johnston go into the cattle quarter of the show grounds at all? Or if he did, 

 had he knowledge in live stock enough to discriminate between the scores of Short-horns, 

 the Ilerefords, the Devons, the Ayrshires — his own countiy-kine, and the various grades 

 of almost every intermixture that he could not but see there? Or Avas his information 

 drawn from some one quite as ignorant and unobserving as himself? There were some 

 400 cattle exhibited on the Syracuse show-ground, and there were not a score of Devon 

 cows among them all, although of Devons, including bulls, cows, heifers, and calves, there 

 was a fine collection : but there were at least three Short-horns to one Devon, and the 

 best show of Sh( rt-horns j-et exhibited in the state, and several of them recently import- 

 ed from England. Equally correct is the remark that " in the New-England States and 

 New-York the Devon blood prevails." In those states not one animal in twenty' has a 

 trace of Devon blood in its veins, as Devon cattle are now understood. Both Devons and 

 Short-horns are occasi nally found in New-England, and so are Ayrshires, Alderneys, 

 and Herefords, in their purity; and so also are there many grade cattle of those bloods; 

 but, in comparison with the whole, they are few, like our author's facts, and far between. 

 And so with the Short-horns in " the Western and south Western states," towards which 

 he never advanced beyond the foot of Lake Erie, where he asserts that " the Short-horn 

 blood predominates." In regard to New-England and New-York he must have made his 

 very accurate observations as he " steamed, and railed" through that country; and a 

 most convenient clairvoyance undoubtedly helped him to the like accurate information 

 regarding the Western and South western cattle. 



Our horses " are in reality too light for heavj' farm-work." Our author believes that 



" when the period arrives for deeper ploughing and more extensive cultivation of heavy 



land, a heavier and stronger stock of horses will be necessary." When he demonstrates 



that the clumsy draught horse of Clydesdale, or the snail-paced cart-horse of 



e, with the same weight of carcass applied to the work, and the same amount of 



