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markable foe milk ; it is, however, but reasonable to infer, that a 

 good milker will also make beef easily, and of a good quality, when 

 she is dried, for the matter for the secretion of milk, will then be 

 converted into meat. The value of a cow does not depend on the 

 number of quarts of milk she gives, but on the quantity of cream. 

 The best method of determining the quantity of cream, is to divide a 

 tall glass into equal parts, or inches, and let the last inch be divided 

 into quarters or tenths, according to the point of accuracy it is wished 

 to observe ; let this glass be filled with milk and set aside, the pro- 

 portion of cream to the milk may then be known by the proportion 

 of the parts it occupies. 



To improve the husbandry of this state, it is not necessary to copy 

 the system of husbandry of foreign countries. A successful system 

 in one country is not certainly successful in another. Considerations 

 of climate, soil, exposure, general features, &c., are to be taken into 

 consideration, when a new system is proposed. Besides, the dis- 

 tance from market is by no means to be lost sight of. For instance, 

 the farms of two individuals, equally good as to quality, but located 

 differently as regards a market, would not be equally profitable to the 

 owners by the same course of husbandry. The farm, in one instance, 

 might be turned to the raising of wheat, and, in the other, to the making 

 of cheese. It is evident, that cheese will bear a more distant trans- 

 portation than wheat ; for ^1000 worth of cheese may be transported 

 to market with much less expense than the same value of wheat. A 

 gentleman in the vicinity of the metropolis, may turn his whole farm 

 to garden sauce, to great profit ; he will, of course, adopt the drill 

 husbandry, but a distance of 20, 30, and 40 miles will prevent the 

 successful adoption of this kind of crop, and this system of husbandry. 



I shall conclude this part of my report with remarks on some of 

 the animal secretions. 



1. Fat. The beauty and roundness of form depends on the ac- 

 cumulation of fat. It is to be considered as a secretion, deposited 

 in the cellular system for certain purposes. It never accumulates, 

 except the animal has more than a supply of food for the immediate 

 wants of the system. Its use in the animal economy is plain, viz., 

 to furnish nourishment when other supplies fail. It is an internal 

 store-house, from which the system draws nourishment in time of 



