204 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



In the second, I admit that it costs more to raise a good calf, 

 or to raise a calf well, than it does to raise one poorly ; but who 

 can afford to raise a poor calf ? Who can afford to raise a calf 

 six months for four dollars ? Yet we can usually buy them at 

 that price. I think the difference in the cost is not so great as 

 is generally estimated, when we take into account the time it 

 takes to feed and care for the calf raised by hand, the value of 

 the milk for the swine, &c. 



In regard to the third or last objection, I deny that there is 

 any unnatural forcing in my mode of raising. It is only 

 returning to the first and only natural way of rearing young 

 animals of any kind, and I do believe one quart of milk drawn 

 from the cow by the calf, is worth two fed in any other way. 

 The calf that is fed on nutritious feed, and kept growing from the 

 time it is dropped, so as to make a year's gain at two years old, 

 over the common method of raising, is the animal that has got 

 the constitution. The bone is formed, the muscle developed, 

 the chest expanded, and you have a constitution grown on 

 that animal that will last for generations, whereas the feeble and 

 dwarfed constitution will be found on the animal that has gone 

 through all the stages of toughening in raising. 



Northampton, November 23, 1863. 



From the Statement of C. L. Buell. 



I think the best way to manage a kicking cow is, to let two 

 calves do the milking until the owner is ready to dispose of her 

 for otber purposes than the dairy. 



Ludlow, October 6, 1863. 



HOESES 



MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee on Draught Horses. 



There is a race of horses found in the State of Vermont, 



commonly known as the " Vermont Draught Horse." These 



horses do not belong to any especial breed, but are a mixture 



of several, the hardy Canadian and heavy Dutch horse appearing 



