ADDRESS. 



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robber, as well as giver, — that the sun and rain filch as 

 well as fertilize, — and so did not shelter nor fasten down, 

 by boards and muck and forest leaves and plaster, those 

 volatile salts and gases which these noiseless marauders 

 were snatching up into the sky, — so much gold out of their 

 pockets '? You would hardly applaud the thrift of a man- 

 ufacturer that throws away a quarter of his raw material. 

 Are there no specimens of stock, in the yards and pas- 

 tures of these towns, rawboned and diseased, and lean as 

 the leanest kine of Pharaoh, — walking illustrations of 

 the " anatomy of melancholy," — which seem to show that 

 the problem in their keeping has been reduction to the 

 lowest terms, — and the multiplying of exceedingly vulgar 

 fractions of beasts, — or finding the equation between^ the 

 minimum of attention and the maximum of emaciation 1 

 Is there none of this stock usurping the place, and consum- 

 ino- the fodder, which of right belong to cattle, that should be 

 here in Amherst taking premiums, — stock that has been 

 badly selected, badly crossed, badly reared, — incarnated or 

 rather inskeletoned libels on the whole law of reproduc- 

 tion '? 



On the other hand, have you all discovered the real phil- 

 osophy and economy there is in feeding your cattle on 

 pine boards ^ in other words, discovered that if you put 

 them into a warm stable, instead of letting them shiver on 

 the north side of it, all the drizzly and frosty weather of 

 winter, you thereby provide fuel for their vital sustenance 

 which the furnace in their lungs would otherwise have to 

 borrow from their stomachs, to keep up the temperature, at 

 the cost of a fifth more in quantity of meal or hay ^ Have 

 you acted on the false presumption that young cattle will 

 eat up the third-rate stufi", like stalks and straw, with a better 

 appetite, if they are not allowed anything else, — whereas 

 the truth of their dietetics is, that they will swallow this 

 inferior food far more easily at noon, if you lubricate 

 their throats with a little more epicurean catering for 

 breakfast 1 



Are there no dilapidated buildings, filthy front yards, 

 staggering fences, broken tools scattered over haymows 



