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man, aforesaid, the third premium of four dollars, for his red 

 cow, four years old, quarter Durham, and weighing 1,327 lbs. 

 And now, having made known the doings of the Committee 

 agreeably to their order, I hope to be excused if I should depart a 

 little from my line of duty, and recommend to the farmers of this 

 county, to give more attention to the raising of cattle and the 

 fattening of the same ; to preparing them in a greater or less 

 degree, at all ages and under all circumstances, for slaughter, that 

 they can always be ready to take the advantage of the high 

 prices in market whenever they shall offer. The great cry has 

 been for years past, fat pork, for this is the only way to save 

 your farms from running out. Fat pork, for by so doing, you 

 not only save your farms, but you get money that is a little better 

 than other money, as the old farmer said, after sending his pork 

 to market, and refused to purchase family groceries, for the rea- 

 son that he had no money in his pocket but pork money. I have 

 become satisfied, from the little experience I have had, that the 

 order of things should be changed. That the pork money should 

 purchase the groceries, while the beef money should be con- 

 sidered the pure article ; that the raising of cattle and fattening 

 the same, in connection with a barn cellar, rightly fitted up 

 for the purpose of making manure, and proper attention given 

 to the increase of that important article, is the better and more 

 profitable way to save a farm, and produce the cash suitable for 

 the higher purposes. In fattening beef or keeping milch cows, 

 the soiling system, where all circumstances will admit of its 

 being carried out to its full extent, is far the most profitable. 

 Should all our large farms be cut up into small ones, say 

 twenty-two acres each, situate in a square, one acre in the 

 centre of one side to be used for the cottage house, door yard, 

 garden, and play ground for the children ; and one acre in the 

 centre, occupied by the barn yard and play ground for the cat- 

 tle, and enclosed with a good and sufficient fence ; the other 

 twenty acres in one lot, enclosed as aforesaid, and the soiling 

 system practised in full, how soon the twenty acres would fat 

 forty head of cattle, twenty in the summer months, and twenty 

 in the winter months, or keep twenty cows through the year. 



