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On the Management of Breeding Cattle. 



ployed in feediug. An exteusiou of this system will of course lead to larger 

 home supplies of manure, and consequently to heavier crops of all kinds ; 

 and there can be little doubt the farmers of Holderness will be compelled, by 

 a lower range of prices of corn, to direct their attention, more than they have 

 hitherto done, to increasing tlieir returns from live stock, whether in beef, 

 mutton, or wool, or in cheese and butter." 



To expect, after purchasing my herd (for which considerable 

 prices were given in order to attain purity and excellence), that 

 it would improve under a system still too common of imper- 

 fect accommodation, would have been absurd indeed ; I there- 

 fore resolved on erecting an entirely new shed, and other 

 appropriate buildings, covering two open yards, which, with a 

 few surrounding cattle-sheds, were all that formerly had been 

 provided for the stock. An isometrical view, together with a 

 plan and elevation of the covered homestead and farm-buildings, 

 are annexed, and the following enumeration of the parts corre- 

 sponds to the figures on the plan. 



No expense was spared to make everything as useful as pos- 

 sible. The cost thus incurred, exclusive of the materials of the 

 old farm-buildings, which, being sound and in good order, were 



either 



