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commensurate with the progress made in the great 

 business of applying all animate and inanimate nature, 

 to the necessities and adornments of civilized life. 



Is it surprising, then, that so much science and skill 

 and taste should have been devoted.to the development 

 of this great community of cattle ? It is a work which 

 has roused the deep agricultural instinct of Great 

 Britain, and has received the patient investigation of 

 some of its profoundest students of agriculture and of 

 its best practical farmers. Never did the crops of that 

 well-cultivated island, perform their completest service 

 in feeding its people, until the cattle were brought to 

 the most profitable shape and quality for feeding. Her 

 wisest men have felt the importance of this matter. 

 Her Statesmen have set ours one good example — an 

 example not forgotten by our Webster and Clay when 

 they colonized the farms at Marshfield and Ashland 

 with the choicest breeds of cattle, as of practical service 

 to their countrymen. 



The researches of science into the questions of animal 

 life, as manifested in the various forms adapted to differ- 

 ent purposes, are also full of interest and profit. That 

 quality best fitted for fattening or for the dairy, that 

 shape most appropiiate to feed or to work, may be, aye 

 has been, established with almost unerring accuracy, 

 for the benefit of the family which keeps a single cow, 

 as well as of the herdsman whose pastures are tLe 

 warm and teeming valleys of the West, and of the New 

 England firmer whose muscles have grown rigid in the 

 heavy toil of procuring and storing food for his dairy 

 herd. We are taught moreover to feed by chemical 

 laws, and olcin and margarine^ albumen, sugar/ starch, 



