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BLOOD STOCK. 



Will any one answer by saying this is the effect of 

 judicious breeding and that our " natives" can be bred 

 up to equal perfection ? Let us answer by saying, it is 

 the effect of great care on the part of eminent breeders 

 in the old country continued through a series of years 

 sufficient to weed out the undesirable points and firmly 

 establish the desirable qualities, and who will attempt to 

 rear a race of thoroughbreds here in New England 

 when at a comparatively small sum animals can be 

 procured of any of the acknowledged breeds which 

 contain the same qualities you would strive to obtain ? 

 It is true that thoroughbred animals are as yet so 

 scarce that all cannot avail themselves of thoroughbred 

 cows, but all or nearly all can use pure bred bulls, and 

 no man can afford to patronize a native, so called, when 

 he intends to rear his calves, certainly, and where the 

 services of a pure bred can be had for a reasonable 

 advance from natives or grades, it will pay the farmer 

 when he intends his calves for veal, as the increased 

 weight with the form will generally insure a sufficient 

 remuneration for the extra outlay. Before closing, lest 

 any undervalue a pedigree, allow us to state that the 

 value of a pedigree consists in its guirantee that the 

 animal is of the race or breed claimed and has in its 

 self the power of transmitting the qualities for which 

 it is itself noted, and that the longer the pedigree, the 

 quality being the same, the more sure your animal is to 

 transmit its qualities. As the object of all Agricultural 

 Societies is to improve our agricultural interest, it 

 becomes a question of importance whether we offer 

 premiums for grade or mongrel bulls at all, for by so 

 doing we are encouraging the rearing of inferior animals. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted, 



A. 0. CUMMINS, Chairman. 



