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There is a grand, picturesque beauty of gentle hill, and dale, 

 and smoothly rolling landscape, in those broad territories; but 

 enlivened with herds, and flocks, and comfortable dwellings, it 

 exhibits the very fullness of pastoral grandeur and luxuriance. 

 So, too, it is fast becoming in farther Western States, younger in 

 settlement, with an equally active and energetic population. 

 Their farmers are fast assuming the character of thrift which the 

 generous soil encourages, and all are either now, or soon to become 

 the homes of herds almost countless in the aggregate. 



It is different in the Middle and Eastern States, which have 

 been longer settled, and the land divided into smaller farms of 

 diversified cultivation, more thickly inhabited, with cities and 

 villages, and their outlying home lots and paddocks almost 

 within sight or sound of each other's church bells. If the west- 

 ern farmer prefers the bulky Short-horn, or Hereford, to graze 

 over his broad, rich acres, none the less should the calculating, 

 industrious tillers of lesser acres, be attached to their Devons, 

 their Ayrshires, or Alderneys, or the statelier Holsteins, and 

 Short-horns, which are winning their way among them. 



We are happy to say there is a growing taste among the more 

 intelligent of these farmers, and particularly among men of for- 

 tune and leisure, for improved breeds of stock. We count many 

 acquaintances among commercial and business men of all degrees, 

 who thoroughly understand and appreciate their value, and the 

 profit of their cultivation. Indeed, no successful business man, 

 of spirit or taste, who now seeks a country home, whether for a 

 permanent abode, or a summer stay, thinks his place complete, 

 without some degrees of indulgence in this luxurious necessity. 



It is a pleasure to remark, that many of our improved breeds 

 and varieties of farm stock have been introduced from abroad 

 by men distinguished in various positions, professions, and occu- 

 pations, who have thus employed portions of their wealth, as 

 well as by those whose pursuits have been strictly agricultural. 



