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CATTLE ASD DAIKY FAKMISG. 



BRITISH CATTLE STATISTICS, 



TXCLOSURES IX COXSl'L-GKSF.KAL MlirRITT'S REPORT. 



The following is a copy of a printed circular sent from the consulate-general at Lon- 

 don to lending cut tie. breeders and raisers in England. The answers to this circular con- 

 stitute tin 1 "incUures" referred to in the consul-general's report; and such portions of 

 these iiH-losures as are not incorporated in said report, and arc otherwise considered ot 

 practical value to American agriculturists, are herewith published: 



DEC-KMIJEU 21, 1SS3. 



Sue: The favor of information on the following subject would much oblige, to enable 

 the Department of State, Washington, to locate such foreign domesticated animals as 

 have been for a long time profitably bred and reared in their native homes, under similar 

 conditions in the United States. Please forward the same in the inclosed addressed 

 envelope to 



H. KAINS JACKSON. 



DISTRICT: 



ALTITUDE. 



MEAN TEMP. 



Soil Alluvial 



Loam 



Clay 



Sandy. &e., etc. 

 Subsoil Ideological strata 



PASTI-RAOE, NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL GRASSES: 



I Tow stock is housed ? 

 Methods of feeding? 



Do. breeding? 



Do. marketing? 



NAME OF 15uicLi>: 



Si/o at maturity. 

 J,iv: weight. 



Annual lucrage yield of milk 

 in pound^ or quart-. 



Cow. 



ORIKIN or I5ma:i 



I), scrititi 

 Color. 



.Maturity. 

 Product in ';ibour. 

 Meal. 



. and how long pure bred' 

 Weight. 



Milk. 



THMP. IN SCMMEE. 



WlIfTKE. 



Bull. 



/ Pounds of butter. 



( Pounds of uheo.se. 



Ox. 



Cheese. 



<i i:\KK.\L i:i:.MAi;K- : .- -The above questions are furni>hed rather as hints than lor 

 categorical answers; and von are asked here to oiler any information and suggestions, 

 and in any form you may \visb to write them, in lespeet to horses, sheep, or pigs, us 

 w-!l as cuttle. The olijeet of this circular is that the American agriculturists and 

 stor-k-breedeis may learn the best varieties of - to( k to purchase from abroad as adapted 

 to their o\vn special localities. 



THE SANDRINGHAM [ERD. 



[InHosun- -N,,. 1 i M Consul-Cieneral Merritfs report.] 



Sto.-k is hf)irs-d at night j cows and heifci's always runout. The feeding is chief! ,v 

 hay, !:ii\ line oi'bi -t. lin-i cd, and cot ton from '.'> to 7 jtounds. Heileis come in with lirsi 

 ralves al)out tiiirty-t\vo months old. 



As a breeding herd the milk i ; entirely devoted to call-raising. 



The present b'-ivl were started by tlwj 1 'rineiM)!' Wales in 1^77. 



The I'rince oj' \Vah-s iias a herd of JSates <\: Kn'mhlley Slioit-liorns- and one of l>not!i. 

 and iii both CH--CS the cat tie an; treated a.s a tenant farmer would do, the object being 



