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remainder of the farm is upland and under a 

 rotation of crops, affording the first specimen 

 of anything approaching to systematic hus- 

 bandry I had seen since I entered the States. 



His stock comprehends 400 cattle, steers, 

 heifers and bulls, and about 2000 sheep of 

 the Merino breed, and I could not but regret 

 seeing land so valuable covered with stock of 

 so inferior a description. 



The red breed of cattle which I had seen 

 all over the State of New York, Colonel 

 Wordsworth informs me are considered to be 

 Devons. If so they are much degenerated, 

 being of diminutive size, coarse, and evidently 

 bad feeders, averaging not more than from 25 

 to 30 stones. 



Colonel Wordsworth's young stock are part- 

 ly bred by himself or bought in at one year 

 old for about 25s. a head ; they seem starved 

 and stunted in their growth, and as miserable 

 in appearance as the worst stock on the bleak 

 sides of our Grampian hills, and yet were de- 

 pasturing land of a quality equal to what with 



