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alluded to. Few realise how great this improvement 

 would be ; the writer has out of pure pity taken almost 

 moribund calves out of skeleton herds, to turn them 

 out, three or four years later, double the weight and 

 almost half as bis: asfain as any adult in the herd from 

 which they sprung. Ensure the existing herds sufficient 

 food all the year round for a dozen years, and the 

 whole aspect of our cattle will have changed. But it 

 is not therefore contended that much besides this may 

 not be done to improve the breed in many places by 

 an infusion of a superior strain. On the contrary, 

 there is no question that this will have to be done. 

 There are whole provinces in which the climate is less 

 favourable to cattle than that of others, and where the 

 constant infusion of new blood will be necessary to 

 maintain a fine breed. There are limited tracts asfain 

 where the cattle are perhaps, for the purposes for 

 which we require them, second to none in the world, 

 and clearly the diffusion of these fine strains will be- 

 come a necessity later. And perhaps the Agricultural 

 Department may improve on these even by judicious 

 crossing. 



It must here, however, be noticed, for the mistake 

 is often made, that the last cross we require is with 

 prize English cattle. At home they have for genera- 

 tions bred for meat and milk. "We want to breed for 

 work. 



If existing domestic breeds do not suffice (and they 

 are very numerous and some of them very fine), then 

 further efforts should be made to obtain crosses from 

 the magnificent indigenous wild stocks (the Gaur and 

 the Mithun, Bos gaurus and Bos frontalis), grand 



