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spontaneously, while the more thickly settled and highly 

 cultivated portions of our land can never expect to adopt 

 this as an extensive branch of farming, in competition 

 with more favored spots. It is the dairy, therefore, which 

 occupies the attention of most of our farmers. Every man 

 who owns land keeps a cow. The milk pail is one of the first 

 utensils provided for carrying on the domestic economy. 

 The rich man is never satisfied until his table is furnished 

 with milk and cream from his own favorite animal. The 

 poor man finds his establishment incomplete until he has 

 added a shed for his cow ; and his farming is never per- 

 fected until he occupies the highway as a pasture, and 

 gleans his winter's store of fodder from the neighboring 

 meadows. Every large farm has its dairy, proportioned 

 to its size and cultivation , and as we look abroad over 

 the most populous and best cultivated portions of our 

 country, it must be apparent to every intelligent observer 

 that he will be a true benefactor to our farming commun- 

 ity who will improve the dairy stock of the United States, 

 and bring it to as high a degree of uniformity as possible, 

 making all due allowance for diversities of climate and 

 locality. 



We hear a great deal of the " old red stock of New Eng- 

 land ; " it has many warm admirers; and in the literary 

 devotion of some of its nighty intelligent historians and 

 friends, (I had almost said apologists,) it promises to be- 

 come as classic in the bovine annals as the " old red sand- 

 stone " has become in geological pages, under the pen of 

 Hugh Miller. I suppose there is such a breed of cattle, 

 but what it is, and where it originated, I have never found 

 any investigator who could inform me. The first cattle 

 brought into New England were imported in the Charity, 



