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raw boned, ill looking cow — she gives more and better milk than 

 any cow in the yard." After what 1 have said, it is perhaps unne- 

 cessary for me say, she was a native. I appeal to farmers, 

 whether they have not witnessed something of the same kind in 

 their own herds. He that selects an animal for milk because her 

 form is comely, or her face beautiful, is in great danger of being 

 deceived in his choice. There are other indices of quality much 

 more certain, not omitting the far famed escutcheon index of 

 Guenon — of which I have heard much, and know little — but 

 what I do know, is decidedly in its favor. No man who would 

 have a good dairy stock, should be unmindful of this sign. 



On a recent visit to the farm of Mr. Payson of Rowley, he 

 informed me that within ten years last past, he had examined and 

 carefully tested the qualities of more than one thousand milch cows 

 of every name and variety, and he frankly stated, that the best 

 milkers he had ever met, take them individually or as a class, 

 came from the droves gathered in Maine or New Hampshire. 

 In selecting these animals, he had regard to their external char- 

 acteristics mainly, their form, their build, their general expression, 

 such as an experienced eye embraces, although there may be no 

 word to give it. Said Mr. Payson, " when the merits of im- 

 ported animals have been blazoned abroad and the defects of 

 native carefully exaggerated, I have sometimes thought, that the 

 sin (if the owner was laid at the door of the brnte beast. No 

 matter by what name your cattle are known, or how complicated 

 may be their pedigree, so long as they are not well fed and cared 

 for, they will be no belter than the ill formed native stock, which 

 in many places, like the lean kine of Pharoah, seem to be for- 

 saken of God, and abused by man.' At the same time, as I 

 passed through his extended barns, I saw a young Jersey Bull, 

 recently obtained of Mr. Motley, from the Massachusetts impor- 

 tation, at a cost proportioned to his reputation, carefully boxed up 

 in the barn, and fed on the best that could be furnished ; while 

 natives of the same age, were gnawing the parched herbage on 

 gravelly knolls, with no one to sympathize in their short comings. 

 Why this distinction in the treatment of these animals, r Hpvv 



