EXTRACTS FROM LOCAL PAPERS. 



At almost every Institute there were articles read by local speakers 

 that are as worthy of publication as anything which has already been 

 printed in this bulletin, but we have already exceeded the limit set for 

 our bulletin, and it will be impossible to publish any of these valuable 

 articles at length. We have decided, therefore, to take extracts from as 

 many of these articles as we have received. Although, in many cases, 

 this is hardly justice to the excellent articles, yet it is the best we can do 

 this year. We believe that readers of the bulletin will find here some 

 most valuable suggestions. We wish sincerely that we had more space to 

 give to these local papers. 



THE MOST PROFITABLE STOCK FOR THE FARMER. 



D. D. BUELL., UNION CITY, AT BRANCH COUNTY INSTITUTE- 



I have raised the fast horse and the slow one, but have never found anything that 

 brought in more net gain than the grade Percheron and Clyde. They have the size, 

 and if crossed right, the durability. I have had the fortune to live between neigh- 

 bors that had high bred trotters. I have seen them develop their speed, and some- 

 times they get a horse with splendid action. But I have noticed that every corn 

 field adjacent to those tracks where they train gets so interested in the races that 

 the corn almost forgets to tassel out and the ears never get larger than nubbins; 

 that the wheat is half chess, and the oats light weight; all of which proves to my 

 mind that farming and the fast horse business were never intended to go hand in 

 hand. Do not understand me to say that the trotter should not be raised. Branch 

 county is proud of her fast horse record, but I earnestly believe that the fast horse 

 business should be a specialty where men have time and money to develop speed, 

 and not mix it up with general farming. 



JERSEY CATTLE AND DAIRYING. 



MR. J. N, BAUER, HASTINGS, AT BARRY COUNTY INSTITUTE. 



The Jersey, then, having the qualifications for economical butter producing, and 

 having them fixed by higher, long continued, pure breeding, challenges competition 

 in this her special field. No intelligent farmer seeking for a butter cow that will 

 help him pay his debts, will be disappointed if he buys a good Jersey. Nor will 

 he ever exchange her for a cow of another breed. Many think and say, "a grade 

 will answer my purpose." Well, indeed, a grade will be an improvement on a scrub, 

 but if a half-breed is good, a full-blood will be better. You will then start right. 

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