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on ten farrow cows, purchased in the spring, he realized an 

 advance of $8 10 cents each in the fall. 



It may not be out of place to mention hero the opinion of 

 this excellent farmer, founded upon long experience, that year- 

 lings bought in the fall and sold the ensuing fall usually 

 double their value. 



Another farmer, though on comparatively a small scale, yet 

 whose farm throughout exhibits the very best management, 

 states that in one case he purchased four farrow cows late in 

 October, at seventeen dollars each, raised on these cows seven 

 calves, sold from them three hundred lbs. of butter in the sea- 

 son, and sold the cows, the ensuing fall, after one year's keep- 

 ing, at $30 each. His steers from three to four years old, kept 

 well in winter, and turned into good pasture, to be sold in 

 June, average above fifteen hundred lbs. per yoke. 



I submit these different statements without comment to the 

 reader. It is obvious that different kinds of stock may proper- 

 ly be preferred by different farmers, according to their peculiar 

 situation and circumstances. 1 have said nothing of different 

 breeds of cattle, because, in truth, thee is no distinct breed 

 raised in the county. But the small-boned, medium-sized 

 animals, of good length, and strongly marked beyond question 

 with the Devon blood, are those which are chosen. The ex- 

 perienced farmer at once distinguishes, by his own practical 

 and long-practised skill, the most thrifty, in respect to which, 

 indeed, there are differences among individuals of the same 

 breed as well as among whole breeds or races. This is done 

 by the eye, and perhaps still more by the touch. When the 

 hair of an animal is stiff and staring, and the skin is coarse 

 and cleaves to the bone, he will pay little profit in the stall ; 

 but when the skin is loose, the hair soft, the eyes bright, and 

 the animal has an elastic touch or feel, you may calculate 

 upon his thriftiness and his profitable returns for good keeping. 



5. Expenses and Profits of Stall-Feeding. — I do not 

 know that I can better illustrate this subject than by the par- 



