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ADDRESS OF MR. LOEIKG. 



reared and fed. She yields an abundance of milk for 

 cheese or the market ; and stands high as a producer 

 of butter. 



Among them is a race of animuls partaking strongly 

 of the nature of Short-horns, round, compact, thick 

 meated, close shouldered, easily flittening, which are to 

 be avoided. Some are found also with a peculiar shel- 

 liness of skin, a hard, unyielding inelastic feel, which 

 is very objectionable. Avoiding these two defects^ 

 you can hardly fail of purchasing a good cow, taking 

 the average as they appear on the farms in Ayrshire.. 



The oxen of this breed are remarkable for activity 

 and- vigor, and for great thrift when fed for the sham- 

 bles. 



I call your attention to this hasty review of the 

 various breeds of cattle, not for the purpose of enab- 

 ling you to determine without further investigation,, 

 what breed is best adapted to the district in which you 

 reside, but in order to impress upon your minds the 

 importance and interest of such a study, and to intro- 

 duce you to one of the most pleasing and profitable 

 branches of agriculture. 1 need not tell you how we 

 all depend upon the dumb creatures which wait upon 

 us during life, and at their death feed and clothe us. 

 From valley and hill, from prairie and mountain, they 

 come flocking in, the patient servants of their imperious 

 master. They offer themselves a living sacrifice to the 

 majesty of civilized man, suffering as he yields to 

 poverty and hardships, and barbarism, and rising with 

 him as he rises, into his conditions of luxury, and ease, 

 and economy and fitness of purpose. The great com- 

 munity of cattle ! who shall write its history ? How 



