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jn their operations, by the imported over the native cattle. If 

 they possess the power, vs^ould it not have been made apparent 

 under such circumstances ? I have known attempts to exclude 

 expert ploughmen from holding the plough, but I never knew of 

 any attempt to exclude expert oxen from drawing it, and if Ihad, 

 I query whether the slow moulded Durhams would have been 

 thus privileged. I have seen the massive Durhams, the descend- 

 ant of the far famed Denton of Northborough, moving in the 

 ploughing field, side by side with the snug-built, bright-ey.ed native 

 ox from Sutton — a little more than half as large — and was con- 

 strained to say, that the work was quite as Avell done by the 

 latter as the former. If you were about to select your man for 

 promptness and expertness of labor, would you take the largest 

 to be found ? By no means, I have seen the snug-built little 

 manweighing not over one hundred and sixty pounds, who would 

 lay on his back the largest lubber that come along. The same 

 rule applies to oxen for labor. 



Our milch cows, for the making of butter and cheese, the 

 primary object for which they are kept on most farms, are 

 certainly not inferior to any others. In expressing this 

 opinion, I take into view their feed as well as their products. 

 I have seen many cows within thirty years, and the very 

 best I have seen have been native. Such was the 

 opinion of Timothy Pickering and John Lowell, gentlemen 

 of as discriminating observation and high character for intelli- 

 gence and truth as any others. Not speculators in stock — 

 with no prejudices to conquer, or preferences to aAvard. 

 That 1 may not do injustice to these venerable pioneers in 

 Improvements, who did more in Massachusetts to awaken 

 public attention to the interests of the farmer than all others, 

 I beg leave to quote a single sentence from a report submit- 

 ted by Mr. Lowell, on milch cows, exhibited at the show in 

 Brighton, October, 1822, when Mr. Pickering was associat- 

 ed with him on the Committee ; and I myself was present 

 a stripling looking on. Says he : 



