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The breed of cattle in England was greatly im- 

 proved, and still improving. He had seen some of 

 the best stocks, and many individual animals from 

 others, and thought them admirable. The short 

 horned cattle, brought to this country, were often 

 very good specimens. He .said he had seen the 

 flocks from which some of them had been selected, 

 and they were certainly among the best in England. 

 But in every selection of stock, we are to regard our 

 own climate, and our own circumstances. We raise 

 oxen for work, as well as for beef ; and he was of 

 opinion that the Devonshire stock furnished excellent 

 animals for our use. We had suffered that old stock, 

 brought hither by our ancestors, to run down, and 

 be deteriorated. It had been kept up, and greatly 

 improved, in England, and we might now usefully im- 

 port from it. The Devonshire ox is a hardy animal, 

 of size and make suited to the plough, and though 

 certainly not the largest for beef, yet generally very 

 well fattened. He thought quite well, also, of the 

 Ayrshire cows. They were good milkers, and being 

 a hardy race, were, on that account, well suited to 

 the cold climate, and to the coarse and sometimes 

 scanty pasturage of New England. After all, he 

 thought, there could be no doubt, that the improved 

 breed of short horns were the finest cattle in the 

 world, and should be preferred, wherever plenty of 

 good feed, and some mildness of climate invited 

 them. They were well fitted to the Western States, 

 where there is an overflowing abundance, both of 

 winter and summer feed, and where, as in England, 

 bullocks are raised for beef only. He had no doubt, 



