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colored, neither light nor dark red, like the native yellow red, or 

 the deep blood-bay red of the latest importations. This Patterson 

 stock had no white hairs upon any part of the body, and I do not 

 think that they made as good working oxen or milk cows as the 

 progeny of the cross of these imported cattle upon the natives — 

 the Devons of Pilgrim importation. 



Alanson Nash replied — That the gentleman that last spoke, Mr. 

 S. Robinson, had misunderstood the tenor of his remarks, in regard 

 to the amount and weight of beef made, either in slauglitering 

 English or American cattle. That he (Mr. Nash) did not state, 

 in his essay just read, that thirty-six hundred weight of beef had 

 been made out of any one slaughtered. He stated, that the lar- 

 gest ox slaughtered in England weighed 3,780 lbs., live w^eight; 

 and when slaughtered, the carcass was supposed to weigh 3,180 

 lbs., including hide and tallow", and all things except oflal. That 

 some of the largest carcasses of the New England cattle have 

 weighed 3,500 to 3,600 lbs., after being slaughtered; this includes 

 the whole of the ox, except the otlal. That this was the rule 

 adopted in England in estimating the weight of cattle, and the 

 same rule should be adopted here. That the largest and best 

 cattle in this country were not raised out of importations of cattle 

 made within the last fifty years, but that tlie old original herds of 

 New England, wdien w^ell bred and fattened, produced the largest 

 and best cattle. That these had been acclimated and adapted to 

 our feed, climate and soil for a period of more than two hundred 

 years. That people in this country had nothing to gain by 

 importing English cattle to breed from. That if our own cattle 

 were to be reared and bred, that we would soon have the best 

 cattle in the world. 



Mr. J. A. Nash said — That he was recently in England, and in 

 Cheshire county, so long celebrated for cheese. He called for 

 some of it, found it very good, although the reputation of Che- 

 shire cheese had fallen off of late years. He said to the landlady, 

 that it was better than he expected. She replied, that it was 

 American cheese-, she had bought it because it was so good. 



The Club adopted the following subjects for the next meeting • 

 " Winter preparation of and care of manure." " Treatment of 

 stock." "Propagation of fish." 



The Club adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



