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Seco7id — The cows are more prolific in healthy progeny than 

 any other class of cattle known. 



Third. — The geldings and bulls when put under the yoke will 

 perform more labor by the day, and continue labor for a greater 

 length of time, and keep in better condition, than any other stock 

 of cattle. 



Fourth. — These cattle have more agility, more strength, more 

 size, and will work better with the plow, harrow or cart, than 

 any other race of cattle of their cost and expense of keeping. 



Fifth. — The bulls and geldings travel well with large loads. 

 The geldings are strong, patient, steady and honest, to a remark- 

 able degree. It seldom requires more than the plowman to drive 

 and govern his team. 



Sixth. — When fed, they put on fat speedily. Their beef is of 

 the sweetest and healthiest kind, juicy and marbled, and flavored 

 better than any found, abroad. 



Seventh. — ^The cows are the best of milkers, acclimated for two 

 hundred and twenty years, and the breed have been thoroughly 

 crossed. The breed now is found suitable both to the soil and 

 the climate — qualities demanded by all stock growers. 



Eighth. — A breeder can make more money by the native stock 

 to breed upon, according to the expense or capital, than from any 

 other known race. They are profitable alike to the graziers, the 

 breeders, and the butchers. 



JVinth. — The flesh and beef, when killed, is of the best flavor, 

 easily cured for barreling, and can be preserved with little care 

 and skill, without much expense. These cattle are good and 

 healthy feeders, and there is a greater yield of milk and butter 

 from them than from any we have seen of the foreign cattle. 



Tenth. — ^The quantity of milk which cows give when running 

 on pastures during the spring and summer, must vary to a con- 

 siderable degree, according to the feed and milking qualities of 

 each animal. Fair cows, fed on a new pasture, and a small sup- 

 ply of Indian meal, will produce from ten to twenty-four quarts 

 of milk per day. Many of the New England cows put on the 

 lineal Yorkshire type, with large udders, fine teats, clean head, 

 shortish neckj deep chests, large carcasses, straight backs, full 



