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been naturalized in the various parts of our vast territory. In 

 Ohio and the blue-grass regions of Kentucky, the magnificent 

 Short-horns find a more coDgenial soil than they do in their 

 native pastures. It seems that" any breed can be transformed 

 into good milkers by care and management. 



Flint says that " the male, designed to get dairy stock, should 

 possess a fine form, a mellow skin, large hind-quarters, and 

 large and well-developed veins." It is also important that the 

 teats of the bull should be set well forward and wide apart. 

 This is a new point in the male, which has been tried in this 

 county for the last eleven years, by various committees, under 

 the auspices of this society, and found to be the true test. The 

 teats should not only be wide apart, but the farther they are set 

 forward of the scrotum, and the more fully they are developed, 

 the more certain is the bull to produce good dairy stock. 



We are glad to know that our farmers are fully awake to the 

 importance of possessing blood stock. Our native cattle had 

 reverted almost to a state of nature, through neglect of the 

 principles of breeding. In blood stock, the transmission of 

 qualities is fixed and certain. Man is unworthy of the domin- 

 ion which God gave him in Eden over the lower animals, if he 

 does not improve them. In fact, his own social advancement 

 depends greatly upon the condition of his domestic animals ; 

 his health and physical well-being are involved in theirs ; the 

 milk, the butter, the cheese, the beef, the mutton, from animals 

 of good stock, build up for him a sound and vigorous body — 

 the organ of a sound mind. 



Peter Lawson, for Cummitlee. 



Lowell, October 19, 18G2. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of Henry H. Peters. 



Tiie cow " Jean Armour,^^ which I enter for premium, is a 

 thoroughbred Ayrshire, six years old; was calved May 1, 185(3. 

 She was imi)orted from Scotland by myself, in 1858. Iler last 

 calf was (h'()])j)cd May 20, and she is to calve again in 18(33. 



The weight of her milk has been carefully kept, from June 

 1st until the present time. 



