BLOOD STOCK. ^° 



find a sale at all. Will any one after viewing the fat 

 cow Aba, shown by Mr. White, tell us that the " native " 

 stock of New England possess all the characteristics 

 desirable in stock ? We have it from undoubted 

 authority that she never ate hut very Utile extra feed 

 with the exception of roots, and that she is a small 

 consumer, substantiating the fact often stated that an 

 animal consumes in proportion to their offal not weight. 

 Or will they fail to see the effect of judicious breeding 

 for milk when they see Lady Sale, 5th, a cow which 

 has given over seventeen quarts of milk per day in 

 March, 1862, from which was made one pound of butter 

 from eight quarts of milk ; or the heifer Lady Lathrop, 

 three years old, having calved last October and ^given 

 milk through the winter and then giving twelve quarts 

 of milk per diem, in the month of June, and that of a 

 quality nearly equal to her dam, Lady Sale, 5th ? 



In further proof of the transmission of blood we 

 would mention Highland Maid, a two year old heifer, 

 out of Lady Sale, 5th, she having calved in last March, 

 has given twelve quarts per day on an average during 

 the month of June, and of a quality which gives credit 

 to a heifer of her age. Also Florence, two years old, 

 having calved last March, has given as much as the 

 last named heifer and of good quality. 



Likewise the high grade cows, many of which are 

 the produce of thoroughbred sires, presented by Abel 

 F. Adams, Joel Page and Mr. Vose, of Winchendon, 

 two of which belonging to the latter named gentleman, 

 not only being " the best of milkers," but having two 

 pair of steers, their calves, the one two years old, the 

 other six months, all of which were easily distinguished 

 by their resemblance to their dames, add but another 

 proof that "Like begets like" in a high bred animal. 



