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more importance than oxen, if we cannot attend to the raising 

 of both ; and let us be particular to get them from our very- 

 best cows, and quite as particular to have regard to the bull. 

 I believe a heifer can be raised, and put in calf at three years 

 old, for twenty-five dollars." 



Sixty years since, it was said by a distinguished individual, 

 with reference to the farmers of this county, '• Because their 

 ancestors reaped but ten bushels of produce from any given 

 quantity of ground, it was deemed a reason for their posterity's 

 not trying to obtain eleven. Let us eradicate every trait of this 

 stupid predilection in favor of the customs of our progenitors, 

 and one great clog will be removed." Our ancestors accom- 

 plished much, — we honor them for their zeal and industry ; let 

 their posterity profit by their instruction, and, with increased 

 light and facilities, accomplish more. We have no data, show- 

 ing the number of cows in the county ; premising that the pro- 

 portion of cows to the stock and products of the farm, may be 

 somewhat similar, the census of 1840, and the official returns 

 of 1844 have been consulted ; showing, that the value of neat 

 stock, swine, produce of the dairy and of the soil, was to each 

 person, for the whole State, about $25 75. For the county of 

 Worcester, $42 50. 



