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horn breeders in Massachusetts, has been in the business 

 some twenty-five years, and has obtained an enviable rep- 

 utation throughout the country. His brother, too, Wells 

 Lathrop, is a successful breeder, and has a choice herd of 

 Short-horns. 



The stock of South Hadley and Granby, shows decided 

 marks of improvement from the influence of these herds. 

 In Hadley, some of the farmers have recently com- 

 menced with the Short-horns. A club own a fine Short- 

 horn bull, and are raising some choice grades. T. P. 

 Huntington and Charles Smith have two young cows from 

 Mr. Lathrop's stock, and are raising calves from them. 

 William Newton keeps an Ayrshire bull. 



In Sunderland, Nathaniel Smith has one of the same 

 breed ; and has some grade heifers. In Prescott and in 

 New Salem, are a considerable number of grade Devons — 

 'perhaps some full-blood. Edmund Hobart of Amherst, has 

 a Short-horn bull, and Horace Henderson, a Jersey, and 

 several grade heifers of his own raising, and thinks highly 

 of them. 



The writer commenced the foundation of an Ayrshire 

 herd six years ago, by importing some heifers from Scot- 

 land, and from selections in the country, and has twenty 

 head of thorough-breds and grades. 



How is it that breeders in England and Scotland have 

 brought their herds to such perfection, except as above 

 indicated — and that only by long practice, careful obser- 

 vation and experience. The North Devon which has been 

 bred for centuries, is sure of producing its like — so the 

 Hereford and Durhams or Short-horns, though not bred so 

 long, have assumed a fixed type and character, and each has 

 adapted itself to its locality. They breed for beef, for work, 

 for the dairy, and to some extent for all purposes united. 



In order to the highest success, we should have a defi- 

 nite aim. Let the young man, in stocking his farm, be- 

 gin, if it is all he is able to do, with the best native cows 

 he can select, and with a thorough-bred bull of the breed 



