ADDRESS OF ME. LOEING. 



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quick-fattening Devons and elephantine Durhams, 

 (Short-horns) ; and the " lean, hurdle-backed Norfolk 

 rams become beautiful firkin-bodied South Downs." 

 We, in the United States, have the advantage of the 

 experience and the profits of these distinguished and 

 successful breeders ; and it especially becomes us to 

 enquire what advantage we can derive from all that they 

 have done. We must have cattle adapted to our soil 

 and climate, cattle which can be profitably fed, cattle 

 which will make the best return for the labor and pro- 

 duce bestowed upon them. 



I am aware that there is no breed of cattle universally 

 adapted to the United States, or even to any one State. 

 The valley of the Connecticut and the hills of Berkshire 

 and Essex, in Massachusetts, differ almost as much as 

 the valley of the Tees and Highlands? of Scotland. And 

 we shall find that, in selecting a breed of cattle for each 

 locality, we must be obedient to nature, or nature will 

 take the matter into her own hands, and will bring 

 about a certain conformity between herself and the 

 animals which she is to nourish. When I tell you that 

 Short-horns have not thriven well in some parts of the 

 New England States, and that Ayrshires have shown 

 too great a disposition to take on flit in the rich pastures 

 of Maryland, owing I think, to a bad selection of 

 animals, to a great extent, you will understand what I 

 mean by saying that nature will have her own way in 

 these things. 



Still, the necessities and the interest of every com- 

 munity generally control its industry. We may learn 

 from the statistics of Massachusetts cattle husbandry, 

 what her people demand most in this branch of all the 



