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tation, and by speculation, there, where the rich valleys 

 and prairies of the West offer an abundant and a cheap 

 sustenance for cattle, and where a propitious climate 

 economizes food and labor, while all about us beef is 

 growing as it were spontaneously ; we can never expect 

 to adopt this, as an extensive branch of our farming 

 interest. 



It is the dairy therefore which occupies the attention 

 of most of our farmers. Every man who owns land 

 keeps a cow. The milk pail is one of the first utensils 

 provided for carrying on the domestic economy. The 

 rich man is never satisfied until his table is furnished 

 with milk and cream from his own private animal. The 

 poor man finds his establishment incomplete until he 

 has added a shed for his cow ; and his farming is never 

 perfected until he occupies the highway as a pasture^ 

 and gleans his winter's store of fodder from the neigh- 

 boring meadows. Every larger farm has its dairy pro- 

 portioned to its size and cultivation. And as we look 

 abroad over our State, it must be apparent to every 

 intelligent observer, that he will be a true benefactor to 

 our farming community who will improve the dairy 

 stock of New England, and bring it to as high a degree 

 of uniformity as possible, making all due allowance for 

 diversities of climate and locality. 



We hear a great deal of the '' old red stock of New 

 England." It has many warm admirers ; and in the 

 literary devotion of some of its higlily intelligent 

 historians and friends, (I had almost said apologists) it 

 promises to become as classic in the bovine annals, as 

 the ^' Old Red Sandstone" has become in geological 

 pages, under the pen of Hugh Miller. I suppose there 



