parative expense of keeping, disposition, &e. 5 and yet our old 

 fogies and mushroon farmers will laugh at the most critical 

 observations, and the most extensive experience of the wisest 

 of men, because they happen to be imported. 



The best blooded Bulls imported from England present to 

 us their beautiful and perfectly symmetrical forms, as the 

 grand result of a system of stock raising by the most scientific 

 breeding, practised by the wisest men in this vocation, of any 

 now living. We do not hesitate to say that many of the 

 English farmers have a more perfect knowledge of breeding 

 neat stock, than any living men, or men that ever have lived. 

 And yet many would-be farmers of our own community sneer 

 at the mere mention of "imported or blooded stock." As 

 well might the little urchin, of live years, who builds his tin 

 water wheel under a fall of six inches, of the size of a pipe 

 stem, sneer at the discovery by Fulton, of the application of 

 steam to the navigation of ships ; or the young man of twenty 

 who is just entering a law office, call in question the legal 

 decisions of a Story or a Marshall. 



We have many good stock raisers in this County that have 

 made many leagues of progress from the old haphazard mode 

 of raising neat stock, of fifty years ago, but still we are far 

 behind the best stock growers of England. But if our ego- 

 tism and national pride does not prevent our taking lessons of 

 those that are wiser than ourselves ; we may hope eventually, 

 by patient progress, to arrive at as great a degree of perfection 

 in producing cows for the dairy, or beef for market, as the 

 best English farmers. 



We would suggest also, as all neat stock is reared for the 

 dairy and for beef that it is desirable to obtain both objects 

 in the same animal. 



Every man therefore who designs to raise a Bull, should 

 not only regard the size, shape and blood, of his calf, but none 

 should be raised, however promising in these respects, that is 

 dropped from a cow of ordinary or inferior milking qualities. 

 The Bull imparts to the female of his progeny just as much 



