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NEAT STOCK. 



Wm. Garbutt, Esq. of Wheatland, N. Y. in a com- 

 munication to the Genesee Farmer, dated 19th July, 

 announces the arrival of a bull and two heifers, imported 

 by Mr. Vernon, from the stock of Mr. Davy, one of the 

 most celebrated breeders of the pure North Devons in 

 Devonshire, England, and says : 



" The animals are very beautiful and sufficiently 

 large for profit, and a valuable acquisition to Western 

 New York, for which we are indebted to Mr. Vernon. 

 I consider the Devons better adapted to the wants 

 and habits of the farmers in Western New York than 

 any other of the improved stock, not excepting the im- 

 proved short-horned Durhams. The want of size in 

 the Devons is more the fault of the breeders than the 

 breed, for animals soon adapt themselves to the quanti- 

 ty of food they have to live on. They are excellent 

 feeders, and the beef is of the best quality, being well 

 mixed. They are fair milkers, and yield a great pro- 

 portion of butter and cheese to the quantity of milk : 

 they are very active, tough, and hardy : excellent 

 travellers, and first best for labor. But permit me here 

 to add, that we farmers must learn to take better care 

 of our animals before we can receive much benefit from 

 improved stock. If we cannot supply them with a 

 sufficiency of nutritive food, and shelter them from the 

 inclemency of the weather, it is of very little conse- 

 quence what the breed may be, they are all unprofita- 

 •)q\q * # * ^\\Q most efficient means of improving 

 our domestic animals would be the introduction of 

 agricultural exhibitions : by comparing each other's 

 stock, we should become judges, see their defects, find 

 the means of correcting them, and receive a powerful 

 stimulant to improvement." 



A correspondent in the same journal from which the 

 above extract is taken, in his second number of a series 

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