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sons on this mission, New England lias done well ; but 

 we assure you, that while she has sent forth her people 

 on that high enterprise, she has kept her " old red stock " 

 at home. "We have given the western valleys men of the 

 most approved races, but it remained for others to furnish 

 the origin of those splendid herds which, under the be- 

 nign influences of a milder climate and more luxuriant 

 pastures, have outstripped their progenitors, and have 

 given to the Short-horns of Kentucky, and Ohio, and Illi- 

 nois the highest rank, on the score of profit, at least to the 

 farmer, if not of gratification to the epicure. It is a fact 

 worthy of notice that the West imported her best breeds 

 of cattle. 



I was called to account, last winter, by one of the re- 

 ligious newspapers of the day, which seemed for the time 

 to have strayed away from the fold to which it was spe- 

 cially devoted, because, in the agricultural discussions of 

 the legislative season, I had advocated the importation of 

 cattle, and the introduction of the best foreign breeds 

 into our own country, while at the same time I urged the 

 possibility of improving the quality of our horses by con- 

 fining ourselves to the best breeds which we now have 

 among us. A word in defence and explanation may not 

 be inappropriate here. The picture of our so-called native 

 cattle, which I have drawn, is not inaccurate. Wherever 

 I find a high average of dairy produce per cow, as in Ver- 

 mont and Massachusetts, I find also an infusion of foreign 

 blood, brought here and planted on our soil, for the 

 special purpose of establishing a dairy stock. When, on 

 the other hand, I go to Kentucky, and admire her herds 

 of beef cattle, reveling in the rich blue-grass pastures of 

 that State, I find that her farmers availed themselves of 



