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the undersigned, upon his farm in Lexington, where it now 

 remains, with exception of the two that have died. They are 

 kept in winter upon the best of hay, of which each animal, 

 over a year old, will require an average of twenty pounds per 

 day, with a portion of wheat bran, and oil or Indian meal, 

 equal, in value, to two quarts of Indian meal and a peck of 

 carrots per day. In the summer, they are soiled, the under- 

 signed not having sufficient pasturing, when they are kept on 

 rye, lucerne, clover, oats, and corn cut green, and carried to the 

 stalls, with the same quantity of wheat bran and Indian meal, 

 as in winter. By this feed, and with the aid of the curry-comb 

 and brush, they are kept in a healthy and growing condition, 

 but not fat. 



"If it occur to the farmer that this mode of keeping is more 

 expensive than usual, to the milking cows of farmers, and the 

 consequent productiveness of the same breed not to be expected, 

 when distributed among the cattle of the country, it should be 

 remembered that all animals kept expressly for breeding, to 

 make them valuable for that purpose, must be kept in higher 

 order, and with more care, than those that are intended only 

 for the dairy, or usual service of the kind of animal. The 

 certainty that the qualities may be preserved, if the blood be 

 kept pure, is remarkably proved in the dog, the horse, and the 

 hog. Some of the cows are first-rate breeders, giving, in each 

 year, a perfectly healthy and well-formed calf ; others are less 

 so, being more irregular in the production of their offspring. 



" The whole number of the pure blood stock now owned by 

 the society, is thirty-three, including the original importation, 

 and four that have been delivered to county societies, and also 

 an Ayrshire bull calf, presented to the society by their presi- 

 dent, the Hon. .John C. Gray, out of his excellent Ayrshire cow 

 Maggie. In addition to these, the society have four native 

 cows, and six half-blood calves, making in all forty-three head. 



"Four pure blood bulls, two of them Ayrshire and two North 

 Devon, have been delivered to the four oldest county agricul- 

 tural societies, (see note at the end,) and there are now five 

 other bulls of the pure blood, ready for delivery to other county 



