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right kind, it will instantly show the brilliant yellow which it gives 

 to cloths. Reader, please to notice the following 



Ekrata. Page 61, IVtli lino from the top, for " bubrum" read rubrum. 

 " 6y, 3(1 lino fiotu Ibe top, for " 29 lbs" read two quarts; 

 " 64, 4th line from tlie bottom, for '' Varieties" read Earitieg. 



The committee of publication have been favored by the Rev. 

 Henry Colman, of Greenfield, with the following communica- 

 tions, " On Stocl<: for the Dairy" and " On Agricultural 

 Publications in the United States." They abound in matters 

 of fact useful to be known and remembered by every farmer, 

 and add to the many obligations this Society is under to this en- 

 terprising, practical and scientific agriculturalist. 



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Live stock, including horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine, is 

 as important a subject as any to which the farmer's attention can 

 be directed. That there are distinct breeds of various and pe- 

 culiar properties, which render them adapted to the different 

 purposes of labor and food ; that all of them, under proper man- 

 agement, are susceptible of improvement ; that by judicious 

 crossing, comparatively new breeds may be formed, certain de- 

 sirable properties be extended, increased and propagated, and 

 what we deem defects or faults, remedied or entirely abolished, 

 are points so well established in respect to all the animal crea- 

 tion, so entirely confirmed by experiments within the knowledge 

 of every man who has any pretensions to intelligence, that it 

 would be idle to waste one word in attempting to establish them. 

 That like tends to produce like, and that physical, intellectual, 

 and moral qualities are transmitted from the sire to his offspring, 

 are among those established laws of nature which common ob- 

 servation ascertained long before science attempted to explore, 

 and teach their wide and universal operation ; or experiment, 

 with unhesitating confidence, ventured practically to apply them. 



The farmer who disdains or neglects these established truths, 



