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would keep pace with improvements in this, as with everytliing 

 else ; tluis each succeeding generation would be more healthy, 

 grow more vigorously, and be more useful and more profitable 

 to their owners. 



It is contended here that the Americans, by pursuing a similar 

 system, might have raised up a breed equal to any in Great 

 Britain ; they had as good a foundation to commence upon ! It 

 may be said to have been the same. Here is where our various 

 breeds originally came from. Our ancestors, most of them, 

 emigrated from England, Scotland, and Ireland, and brought 

 with them from different places in all these countries their cat- 

 tle of every species, as well as farming implements. 



Some of the former, no doubt, consisted of the same breeds 

 and blood that our English friends originally possessed, and 

 which we might, and, no doubt, in some cases, have improved 

 upon by judicious crossings, feed and care, and attained a per- 

 fection in breed equal in every respect to them. 



We are searching our own country through, and buying at 

 great cost animals of tlie same stock from which ours sprung. 

 But tliis is not the worst, we are chasing the seas over at a still 

 greater expense, and to be certain that we are not deceived, to 

 purchase on the very soil and homestead of the animal, one su- 

 perior to anything we left behind. 



His genuineness to be further authenticated by a herd-book, 

 enumerating a long list of progenitors in both lines. The cost ol 

 transportation and risk of a long journey by land and water to 

 be added to tliat of the animal or his stock, when offered for sale 

 here. No blame is to be attached to those who show this spirit 

 and enterprise, on the contrary it is to be commended, the blame 

 lays with the great body of our iarmers in not taking the neces- 

 sary pains to cultivate the best breeds at home. These are equal, 

 naturally, in every respect, to our English friends; their origin 

 being the same, all it wants is similar judgment, care and assi- 

 duity in breeding, rearing and keeping them, this has been done 

 by some at different periods and in different localities of our 



