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Twelfth — " Are stock often sent from Brighton to New 

 York, or from New York to Brighton market?" 



None are sent from Brighton to New York ; occasionally in 

 the summer season, a few hundred come from New York to 

 Brighton. This happens when there is a very large supply at N. 

 York of southern and western cattle ; and we sometimes see in 

 our market, very fat cattle fed in Kentucky and Ohio. Of cat- 

 tle of the pure Durham blood, we have very few ; hardly enough 

 to give a single butcher a chance to test the quality. A mix- 

 ture of blood, will, undoubtedly, improve almost any stock ; 

 and it is to be regretted that there is not more attention paid to 

 this important fact. 



The market business at Brighton, is now conducted upon a 

 system, which is either cash, or short credit, which never ex- 

 ceeds a week. This is very frequently and necessarily done to 

 enable the butcher to kill and weigh his cattle. If the practice 

 of buying and selling cattle by the hoof or live weight could 

 be brought about, the cash system could be made complete ; 

 if, however, a v/eek's credit was occasionally necessary, a note 

 might be given, and the money received at the bank by paying 

 the discount, which would probably be less than a single day's 

 board, and the drover could be immediately on his way home. 



XI. Swine. These form a considerable portion of the 

 live stock of Middlesex county. Though Middlesex is not a 

 hog-raising county, yet such is the number of swinish emi- 

 grants into it, and the respectability of the condition to which 

 they are advanced after their arrival, that I might be liable to 

 the charge of some Jewish prejudice if I passed them over in 

 silence. Some years since, at a Brighton Cattle Show, an ac- 

 complished scholar, then a professor of Harvard University, 

 and afterwards Governor of Massachusetts, whose wit was al- 

 ways racy, and, when let out, sparkled and bubbled like a soda 

 fountain, in toasting the farmers of Massachusetts and the 

 literati of her college, expressed a wish that their pens might 

 equally do them honor. Without disparagement to the other 

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