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The importation of a pair of them is therefore urgently 

 suggested to the spirited American grazier. The expense 

 will soon be repaid ; for the reputation of the breed which 

 will precede their arrival, and much more, the sight of 

 the animals, will create an anxiety in our farmers, who 

 are quick in discerning sources of profitable investment, 

 to possess themselves of it. The great prices given for 

 merino sheep during the late war with England, and for 

 the mere use of a new Leicester tup, before that event, 

 and \\ hile the full blood was confined to one man, af- 

 forded ample proof that farmers do not hesitate to risk 

 high prices for stock, when a reasonable probability ex- 

 ists of obtaining quickly an interest for capital advanced :^ 

 and when we reflect that the amount of the losses sus- 

 tained by those concerned in preparing the objects for 

 the late show, and of two former similar exhibitions, 

 would be much more than sufiicient to secure to Penn- 

 sylvania a pair of the breed of cattle in question, it is to 

 be regretted that so much money should have been 

 thrown away, without producing any permanent benefit 

 to the country. Our farmers reflecting, that by crossing 

 the best of their o\\ n stock, or the best they could pro- 

 cure, with the foreign breed, they secure a portion of a 

 distinctive, strongly marked race, the characters and 

 valuable properties of which would certainly increase 

 as they advanced in the blood, w^ill be led to make 

 the experiment, and the gratification derived from" the 

 thriving disposition and beauty of form, exhibited in the 

 progeny shortly after their appearance on their farms, 

 would stimulate them to its repetition : and when, after 

 a few years they found that the new breed furnished 



"* From SlOO to S500 were given for a merino tup: and 

 S150 and ^200, were paid by several for the use of a new 

 Leicester tup, to captain Farmer, of New Brunswick, New 

 Jersey, for one season. 



