52 TKAXSACTIOXS. 



REPORT ON HORSES. 



BY GILBERT A. SMITH. 



Horses are among the most profitable animals the farmer can raise, at 

 this time, for there is an increasing demand and high prices can be obtained 

 The horse may also be one of the most attractive of animals. Let a fine 

 horse be drove or rode through a street, and how soon all eyes are upon him. 

 He excites many of the noblest and best feelings of man. Even the lisping 

 boy exclaims in the fulness of his heart, 0, that's a fine horse ! what a 

 beauty ! Our horses should be of the best breeds. It is as cheap, or nearly 

 80, to raise a good horse as to raise a poor one, if the right pains are taken 

 at the start. 



In order to raise a good horse, the colt should come of a sire and dam, 

 which are not victims of any disease or unsoundness ; and which have in 

 themselves those good qualities, which we desire the colt to possess. In 

 general, the sire and dam will transmit their qualities to their ofispring. 

 We recognize with pleasure the increasing interest in improved breeds of 

 Horses. 



REPORT ON SWINE. 



BY LEVI P. WAKNEE. 



"We invite attention to a few practical hints, and perhaps to some existing 

 errors, with regard to breeding, selecting, feeding and general management 

 of the Boar. 



A choice breed should be selected, preserved and improved. It is more 

 honorable to breed a choice Boar, than to import him. Breeding a Boar for 

 service is a matter of no small importance, and success requires skill and 

 good judgment. The pedigree, for at least three generations back, should 

 be ascertained, in order to avoid any impurities of blood, which frequently 

 make their appearance after generations of apparently pure stock. 



In breeding, it would be well to observe at what age a sow brings the 

 best pigs, and whether at the first or second litter ; also the efiect of in and 

 in breeding ; and whether the Boar that first serves the sow has any influ- 

 ence on succeeding litters, and whether stock from two difierent boars is of 

 equal quality, if the one serves ten sows a vreek, and the other only as many 

 in a year. 



