community, for one single year. Yet many farmers will as 

 soon put a cow to a poor, worthless Bull, as to a good blooded 

 and valuable one ; even though they design to raise the calf. 

 Your Committee are of opinion that hundreds of dollars loss, 

 at least, are sustained Svery year in most towns in this com- 

 munity where this custom is practised. 



We are aware that many farmers have an inveterate predju- 

 dice against some of the best stock in the country, simply 

 because it is imported or blooded stock, and choose to raise 

 calves sired by Bulls that have been raised haphazard without 

 any reference to size, symmetry of form, blood, or quality of 

 cow from which it came. If the only object is to bring the 

 cow to milk annually and kill the calf for veal at six weeks 

 old, we would rather put a cow to a thorough bred, short 

 horned Durham, or Ayershire Bull, and pay a dollar for his 

 use to every cow, than to go for nothing to a thin, lank, coarse 

 animal, that only possesses the power to impress on his get 

 his own ugliness and deformity ; for the calf will be worth 

 from one to two dollars more for the shambles when ready to 

 kill. 



Many farmers will ridicule the most valuable information 

 and important statistics, if written in a book, and continue to 

 drive their cows to a twenty-five cent Bull, because of his 

 suicidical predjudice against imported stock. Forgetting that 

 nearly all our imported Bulls were reared by practical, as well 

 as scientific farmers of England, who possess skill in produc- 

 ing neat stock, as far superior to their own egotistical, unciv- 

 ilized conception of it ; as our best stock of Worcester Co. 

 excels the wild, uncultivated herds, that roam the forests of 

 South America. 



In England's best farming districts, the produce of neat stock 

 is considered a science as well as a practice, and so perfectly 

 understood is it, that their best farmers can, with almost math- 

 ematical certainty, predict what will be the progeny of the 

 cross of any given bloods of sire and dam, in its form, size of 

 bone, general muscular development, tendency, to fatten, com- 



