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This cross of Durham do the best for fattening after milking, 

 better than any of the imported or native breeds. 



The native stock are always improved by a cross on the native 

 cow with a foreign bull. 



I am altogether in favor of the cross of Durham upon the na- 

 tive stock, both for milking and fattening. I know of none bet- 

 ter. 



The foreign stock, when introduced into our country, do not 

 keep their health so well as the native stock, and lose much by 

 a change of climate and methods of feeding. The foreign stock 

 should be imported for crossing alone. 



The native stock does not equal the Durham for crossing. 

 This stock, when crossed with the native, will produce better 

 beef and milk than the native or any other breed. This is my 

 experience, and I have been in the business of cattle growing 

 for more than twenty years. I am going to Europe to find the 

 best breeds to bring over to cross on our native stock. I intend 

 to try all the different Eur- 'pean races, and will endeavor to pro- 

 duce a cross race preferable to any others which can now be 

 found. 



So far as my experience goes, I would use the foreign race of 

 cattle alone to cross on the native. There is a very great advan- 

 tage in crossing on the native cow in good healtli and condition, 

 as during gesiatian. 



The animal does not undergo the process of acclimation 

 which all foreign cattle Avhen brought here are compelled to 

 suffer. The change from one climate to another always affects 

 animals and plants injuriously, in a greater or less degree. No 

 two places on the globe, even in the same latitude, possess the 

 same physical condition of plants, or animals or soil. And the 

 change on a given longitude is much greater. No animals or 

 plants will flourish in a strange place or country until they pass 

 through an acclimation. This process often takes almost one 

 generation to accomplish it thoroughly. 



