160 Remarks on the Cattle Procession, 



return and circulation of capital that enriches a nation. 

 The mone}^ expended, and even lost, by feeding heavy 

 show beef cattle, impoverish more or less a country, by 

 diminishing the means which the feeders would have 

 had without such expenditure, of bringing to market a 

 greater number of cattle in future. 



Two methods, and two only, exist by which farm 

 stock can be improved. The first is by breeding from 

 those native individuals of a kind, possessing the forms 

 known to take on most ?asilv flesh and fat; and by occa- 

 sionally crossing their progeny with others having points 

 in which those resulting from former experiments, may 

 be deficient. If milk be the object, subjects should be 

 selected which yield great quantities of it, and of a good 

 quality, and retain it loui^est ; and crosses may be made 

 with those males within our reach having the best forms 

 and least oflfal. Materials for such experiments are by 

 110 means deficient among us, but unfortunately the spirit 

 for slow improvement does not sufficiently prevail among 

 our intelligent cultivators. In this way a man may in a 

 few years obtain a breed, from which he may live to de- 

 rive great profit. It is b} such methods, that the breeds 

 of England and some parts of the continent of Europe, 

 have been brought to the great perfection which they at 

 present exhibit. 



A second and much more expeditious method of im- 

 proving the breed of cattle, is, by importing such stock 

 from Europe as possess the points to which we wish to 

 direct our attention. 



The diflfusion of the merino and New Leicester breed 

 of sheep, sets us at ease respecting those inestimable 

 animals. It is to the increase of beef and milk, that the 

 spirited improver should chiefly attend : and fortunately 

 a breed combining both objects is easily attainable, by 

 the importation of the '< improved short-horned cattW 



