ADDRESS. 



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have mostly a touch of Lincoln or Cotswold blood to 

 increase their weight, and are preferred by some to the 

 pure Cotswold. 



In breeding both Sheep and Cattle, then, let me 

 insist once more upon the importance of crossing 

 constantly with some of the improved breeds that 

 have been named. There must be herds and flocks 

 purely bred to sustain the supply of blood for crossing ; 

 but the practical farmer will find, here as in Great 

 Britain, that the crosses are the best tools he can work 

 with in carrying on his farm, and making the cash 

 account come out right at the end of the year. With 

 sheep, the ewes required should be good mothers as a 

 first requisite, and then, whatever their size or breed, 

 lambs sired by South Down or Oxford Down or Cots- 

 wold or Leicester blood, will be pretty sure to pay 

 their way. 



II. Grazing and Feeding. — In what has been said 

 under the head of Breeding, it has been taken for 

 granted that the stock bred were to be fitted for 

 slaughter or retained for use, not necessarily in the 

 hands of the breeder, but at least within the limits 

 of your own State. Time will oblige me to restrict 

 myself only to remarks of the most general kind, both 

 under this head and under that of Dairying, keeping 

 in view the broad results we desire to attain, rather than 

 the details by which they are to be accomplished. 



Breeding, and grazing or feeding, naturally divide 

 themselves in some degree, into separate pursuits ; and 

 stock commonly passes into second hands for the latter 

 purpose before going to market. At the same time, 

 the farmer who raises young stock naturally has more 

 or less concern with fitting it for the shambles. Aside 



