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ADDRESS OF MR. LORIISTG. 



ter they have secured in England. Both as cows and 

 oxen they are graded here to great advantage, but as 

 pure animals they seem to degenerate. I have never 

 seen so good a Jersey cow raised in this country as I 

 have seen imported. Of Herefords, West Highlanders^ 

 and others, we have hardly had good opportunities to 

 judge — the former not having increased to any great 

 number, and the latter hardly having appeared among- 

 us, Ayrshires, judiciously selected and properly treated 

 have taken kindly to our soil and climate, and in many 

 instances have improved upon the originals. 



So far as the products of the various breeds of cat- 

 tie are concerned, there are certain facts worthy of 

 notice. There is no doubt that the beef of the West 

 Highlander, of the Devon, and perhaps of the Gallo- 

 way and Hereford is better than that of the Short- 

 horns — not so profitably raised — but more palatable. 

 I found no beef in England, where roast beef appears 

 as it does in our own country, so good as I find in the 

 markets of New England, and especially in those of 

 New York, Philadelphia and Washington. So far as 

 my observation goes, and so far as I can learn from 

 dairymen abroad, cows go dry, on an average, twice as 

 lon^ in this country as they do in Great Britain and 

 other parts of Europe. These various facts are worth 

 remembering, while we discuss the quality of different 

 breeds of cattle, whether for beef or milk. 



It having been determined by the English farmer 

 that the production of beef and milk cannot be profit- 

 ably combined in the same animal, the chief attention 

 of breeders there has been turned to what might be 

 called a division of the question. Agriculture in Eng- 



