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metrical form and strongly marked features, bright, full eyes, 

 and small, short, handsome horns. 



Mr. Hunt is now raising some twenty head of this bull's get, 

 including a pair of steers that took the premium at the 

 county show last year. The bull was exhibited at the county 

 fair, in 1857 and 1858, and pronounced by good judges to be 

 the best animal upon the ground. 



Every calf got by " Dutchman," imported in 1857, has, also, 

 been^ of black and white color, and all very extraordinary 

 animals. 



For the benefit of all persons interested in improving the 

 breed of neat stock in this country, the author would inform 

 the reader that the owner of the splendid animals referred to, 

 is the proprietor of the " Highland Stock Farm," Belmont, 

 Mass. Mr. Chenery is. a gentleman of ample fortune, and 

 having a decided taste for that department of husbandry known 

 as breeding, he has determined, without regard to cost, to see 

 what improvements can be accomplished among neat stock. 

 So far, he has been eminently successful, and the farmers in tjiis 

 vicinity will have many occasions for rejoicing that so enter- 

 prising and so liberal a man as Mr. Chenery, is engaged in the 

 laudable f^nterprise of improving our native stock. A little 

 of the blood of this hardy and valuable Dutch stock, infused into 

 the veins of " natives," would very soon wipe out of existence 

 the poor apologies for cows — things of little else than skin and 

 bones — which are calculated to shock our ideas of the beau- 

 tiful handiwork of Nature. Such are scarcely, if ever, free 

 from disease, and it is very rare that they bring forth a calf 

 worth saving. On the other hand, the Dutch cattle are not 

 only beautiful (see cuts of the same), but they enjoy, after ac- 

 climation, a remarkable immunity from disease; and the calves 

 of such, when only a few days old, even if intended for veal, 

 are actually worth five dollars more than the progeny of or- 

 dinary cows. 



It is a magnificent sight to see so fine a lot of animals to- 

 gether, as can be seen at the " Highland Stock Farm." Eveiy 

 thing about the barn is in perfect keeping with the liberality 

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