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and pasture than the improved heavy Short Horns. 

 Good keeping, wliich is a kixiiry to the parent, and 

 may be used or not, as circumstances require, be- 

 comes absolutely necessary to the progeny, as with- 

 out it there will be a falling ofiF: a breed of animals 

 cannot be taken from ricli pastures and transplanted 

 to a region where they must be busy to get a living, 

 without speedy deterioration. 



There are parts of our country to Avhich, in our 

 opinion, the improved breeds of imported cattle will 

 not be found adapted. Because these cattle flour- 

 ish, and even improve, in the rich valleys and prai- 

 ries of the south and west of Kentucky, Ohio, In- 

 diana, and Illinois, and can be advantageously grown 

 in most parts of this state, we .should not think it 

 fair to infer that they would succeed on the sweet 

 but short pastures of the hilly regions of this state 

 and New-England, or that their large frames and 

 thin skins are as well adapted to resist the inclem- 

 encies of our winters as a more compact and less 

 delicate breed. In improving our stocks, chmate 

 and keeping should not be lost sight of; for, in the 

 United States as elsewhere, there are sections where 

 the native breeds will thrive and afford a profit, where 

 the high-fed and artificial breeds would suffer, and, 

 by their failure, bring undeserved odium on the cat- 

 tle, and on those who have laboured for their intro- 

 duction into the country. 



Herefords. — Although the Here fords, in common 

 with every other native breed of cattle to be found 

 in England, have long had their representatives in 

 the stock of this country, it is but a few years since 

 that they have attracted much notice either at home 

 or abroad. They had long been known as a large 

 and valuable breed, capable of feeding quickly, and 

 to a great weight ; but the superior favour with which 

 the beautiful Short Horns were received after their 

 impi-ovenient by Ceilings, Berry, and others, hod the 

 effect to divert public attention from these, and, in- 



