2O BREEDING STOCK. 



more nutritious pasture have greatly increased 

 in size, the cross has produced strong and 

 handsome animals, kindly feeders, rising to a 

 great weight and fetching high prices. 



The Kentucky grazier, occupying pastures 

 of the richest kind and enjoying mild winters, 

 would I think be well-advised in adopting 

 the same plan, of course observing that if it 

 can be avoided, the produce of the cross 

 should not be bred from, it being well-known 

 that the progeny of hybrids turn out to be 

 coarse and unprofitable stock. There is no 

 reason to doubt that such a cross would carry 

 their beef along with them, from Kentucky 

 to New York, in the same way that, before 

 steam navigation was invented, fat cattle were 

 often driven from Scotland to London, a dis 

 tance of 500 or 600 miles, with no perceptible 

 loss of weight or condition.* 



* In corroboration of the advice given in the text, to 



the Kentucky farmer, and also as affording a proof of the 



advantage to be derived from attention to the breeding 



of stock generally, the writer hopes he may be excused 



.for referring to the following notice taken by the news- 



