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tamed to a profitable account, provided the dairy part of 

 the system is well managed. An increased quantity of 

 good manure would be made, and the farmer without an 

 annual outlay of cash would, after the third year, have 

 every winter, money coming in from the sale of a few fat 

 steers and cows. The raising a good supply of winter food 

 for cattle, is the very life of farming, for the old remark is a 

 just one "No food, no cattle; no cattle, no dung; no 

 dung, no corn." I have no hesitation in determining, in 

 my opinion, that the short-horned breed of cattle would an- 

 swer best for this county. Good heifers may, with good 

 judgment, be selected from the Yorkshire droves that come 

 up, which if put to a well-bred Durham bull, would give 

 the foundation of a good fair stock, without giving any 

 fancy prices. Good cattle cost no more rearing than bad. 

 The generality of Hereford cows give but a short quantity 

 of milk. In Herefordshire their chief object in keeping a 

 herd of cows is the rearing of calves ; they do not depend 

 on making their greatest profit by the sale of butter or 

 cheese ; wherever they do, the Durham breed answers 

 better. Were I a breeder of Durhams, I should certainly 

 try a cross from a pure bred grey Hereford bull, preserving 

 thus the Durham colour, improving the Durham quality of 

 flesh ; lessening their frame, and thus be enabled to keep a 

 greater number of cattle on the same quantity of land : be- 

 sides improving the quality of the flesh, the size of the oxen 

 sent to Smithfield for sale would be somewhat reduced, and 

 on that account would be worth somewhat more per stone. 

 It must be admitted that the London butchers will give 

 more per stone for a well-bred, and well-fed, Hereford ox, 

 than for a well-bred and fed Durham. Any one having 

 some of the red pure Durhams, bred by the Rev. Henry 

 Berry, of Liverpool, might advantageously cross with a red 

 pure-bred Hereford bull which may at most times be had of 

 Mr. John Price, of Poole House, Upton-on- Severn, and thus 

 preserve the Hereford color. No breed is better suited to 

 such light soils as Norfolk than the North Devon. Mr. 

 Coke's herd of cows are beautiful ; most of them are good 

 milkers, and easily made fat, and the steers are excellent 

 workers. Suffolk cows are very good milkers, but sadly ill- 

 shapen about their rumps. I believe thai no one at this 



