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ADDRESS OF MR. LORING- 



high reputation, whether deserved or not. There seems 

 to be no doubt that they are a very profitable animal 

 to raise in certain sections, reaching early maturity, 

 taking on fat during the whole period of growth, and 

 attaining great size. So far as our observation goes, 

 they make very superior grades, and unless allowed 

 to degenerate by scanty feeding and improper care, 

 in wdiich case they become raw, misshapen brutes, they 

 are a valuable acquisition to almost any district. They 

 have their defects, however, as what races have not? 

 Short-horn beef, although profitable to the producer is 

 not so to the consumer — being coarse in texture, poorly 

 marbled, and from its early maturity, deficient in those 

 nitrogenous compounds which are the true sources of 

 nutriment. This is not true to so great an extent of 

 the grades as of the thoroughbreds; and while I have 

 no doubt that pure-bred Herefords or Devons would 

 be more profitable for the New England farmer, whose 

 mode of feeding is not calculated to produce early 

 maturity, I find many judicious farmers who believe 

 that an admixture of Short-horn blood, properly dis- 

 tributed, is of greater real profit than the same use 

 of either of the others. I have seen, moreover, grade 

 Short-horn cows in New York and some sections of 

 Massachusetts, whose milking properties are extraor- 

 dinary, notwithstanding the universally acknowledged 

 fact that pure-bred Improved Short-horns lay no claim 

 to being considered dairy animals. 



I do not mean to say that these remarks will apply 

 to every section of our country. You will however 

 sustain me in applying them to many sections; and I 

 am supported in my position by the testimony of many 



