SECRETARY'S REPORT. 47 



hospitals would become literally lunatic asylums, and the 

 inmates of the hospital would be matched by the inmates of the 

 barn, if you undertake to mix up these things as has been 

 proposed. 



I trust the Resolution will prevail, and that we shall have some 

 place where we can go and learn how to breed cattle, each in its 

 own appropriate way ; where men can go and know that they get 

 a pure-blood animal ; where they can go and learn to what 

 treatment the animals have been put, and under an intelligent 

 eye. 



I know that Mr. Flint is laying a great burden upon the 

 farmers of these institutions. But somebody has got to look 

 after this matter, and look after it well. If we can get the men, 

 let us set them at work. How they shall be obtained, I do not 

 know. But let us have them, and then if a gentleman wishes 

 to know how to breed any particular stock he will know where 

 to go to get it. 



With regard to the 1)est breed for the State of Massachusetts, 

 every gentleman who knows me knows my views ; but, at the 

 same time, whether the State Board of Agriculture is ready to 

 declare it, is another matter. I hope the first Resolution will be 

 adopted. 



Mr. Stedman. — The gentleman from Salem seems to have 

 looked at me as the Shorthorn breeder. It was not with refer- 

 ence to myself, in that respect, that I rose to speak upon the 

 Resolution before us. I would confine my remarks to the two 

 breeds specially mentioned in the lecture by Mr. Flint. I might 

 have a purer breed to outstrip me, just as the gentleman from 

 Salem, having a knowledge of law and medicine and politics, can 

 outstrip me in argument, and make the worse appear the better 

 side. He has alluded to the great variety of mixed breeds 

 scattered throughout the State of Massachusetts. That is not 

 the class of stock with which we wish to experiment. AVe wish 

 the pure breeds. Was I not correct in the statement that we 

 now know which is the better, by their being kept, one here and 

 another there, under different managements and under adverse 

 circiimstanccs ? I have long felt it was a want that we should 

 have some place where the two breeds, or some two, should be 

 bred together. I do not say that they should be confined in the 

 same yard. It would bo best, certainly, to have the males and 



