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among them the famous imported Waterloo J., illustrated in 

 the fourteenth volume American Herd Book. It Avas said of 

 her when 3"oung that she was the grandest cow in America. 

 The Roan Duchess, Duchess of Goodness, Harriet, and 

 Young Mary families are also well represented. About fifty 

 high-graded cows and heifers are kept on the farm to raise 

 calves. A car load of these calves, six to eight months old, 

 sold in the Fall of 1879 for twenty-eight dollars a head, to go 

 to Utah Territory. 



GOOD STOCK PAY EVERY TIME. 



By having good stock, and giving them good care, the 

 cattle fed each year through the hard times have sold for over 

 five cents per pound. This stock made me some money, but 

 bad stock would have proved a loss. 



There is a high-grade steer on the farm now, twenty-one 

 months old, that weighs over sixteen hundred pounds. He 

 has made more money than six scrubs would probably have 

 made in the same time ; blood will tell. The same difference 

 holds good in other kinds of stock. 



The man who sows and plants poor seed, and breeds from 

 poor stock, will remain a poor man. As the best seed to plant 

 or sow is the cheapest, so is the best stock to breed from the 

 cheapest. 



From year to year the best cattle to be found in the sur- 

 rounding country, and of any age, are bought for my farm ; 

 such have always made me money, while bad and scrubby 

 animals have proved to be too dear, no matter Avhat the price. 



cows AND CALVES. 



The cows and heifers come in at all seasons of the year ; 

 and the graded cows mostly raise two calves at a time, and 

 sometimes two pairs in a year. I also buy other calves from 

 time to time. Before the calves are old enough to wean, they 

 are separated from the cows in the daytime and fed grain, and 

 turned to the cows again at night. By this means they become 

 well used to eating grain before weaning time comes. They 

 are weaned at from four to six* months old, and their grain 



