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n I s T c) i; Y F 11 F. \i [■: i- o i; n c a 'i' 'i^ l e 



reiuloT sei'vici', lonvmg' pvojudice out of tlu' 

 (|iiestion. aiul as many ol' them as tlio jnirso will 

 allow. A good Stan is hall' the battle, ami now 

 IS tlio time to mako that start. Thoso who wisli 

 to obtain gkiry ami honor m warfare must not 

 eonie to the fieUl when the battle is won, but 

 must share some part of the luirdeii. Money 

 eannot pay a man for the eare, anxiety, anil 

 risk he is e.\[ioseil to in importing stoek. It is 

 a task that 1 shall be ghul to stv otliers umler- 

 take, as 1 have ilone my share of the duty. 1 

 must now do justiee to those avo have, whieh 

 IS much the pleasantest part ; there is no art, 

 nil science, no study so pleasing, so substan- 

 tially gratifying to the mind of man, as to fully 

 develop the good pioinfs of animals, in his own 

 superior skill and management. It may be 

 made the theme of usefulness. My opinion of 

 securing good stock, "\vith eeouomv in view, is 



S\VEETHE.\RT 2ND, 602. AND VESTA 4TH. I2:CA. AT 



IS MONTHS (IStni. 



(Bred by F. W. Stone. Guelpti. Out.. Canada.) 



this: the farmer should procure two heifers and 

 a bull of the very best order of that breed his 

 taste directed, and let no price stop him, if the 

 purse will sanction it ; what says Shakespeare 

 that 'purse is trash ;" so say I, compared with 

 good animals. They were wealth of the first 

 people ; why not continue that of the present ? 



"With any ordinary luck the progeny of two 

 females will soon extend while the male im- 

 proves the inferior, and adds value to the whole ; 

 this consideration will sustain high prices, and 

 pare animals cannot be imported without pav- 

 ing high for them. 



"J am further of o]iiniou that ]iure breeders 

 for sires that can be depended upon, should h(> 

 upheld in high prices, so as to enable them to 

 keep their stock without a stain, as I think the 

 most important part of breeding lies here. The 

 progeny always degenerates if the sire has the 

 lightest cross; it is not so witli the dam; the 

 stock will improve if the sire is well selected. 



■■Jlr. II. talks of showing spirit in selecting 

 a breed of our own. 1 should Hke to hear his 

 suggestions in couimeiuing the brei'd, wilbmit 

 having the best animals to resort to; e\en llu'ir 

 crossing with a bad Iweed will take a full eeii- 

 tury to make anything out of it, if loiindeil on 

 the best judgment. I will allow there are a 

 limited supply of the bi'st Ihirhams, but not a 

 tenth part there should be. 



■'.Wi person can go to Kiiglaiid and fetch the 

 best, animals, unless he is faviu-ed in freight, for 

 less than $ru)0 each. 



"I see our friend, Mr. A. P.. Allen, says (hat 

 Ohio is the home of the lordly iShorfhorns. I 

 hail their pironiinent iiaiiie, and as ours are 

 ]iriiu'ipallv of the feminine gender, will sa}' 

 ^'ork State is the home of the ladylike llere- 

 foi'ds. As ladies are considered the ilrst race 

 of animals, 1 hope the llerefords will inaiutain 

 it. 1 am, ilcar sirs, ytnirs siiu'crelw 



"W'.M. 11. SoriiAM. 

 '■rerch Lake h^arm, detferson t\i., No\. '^Ti, 



fS40." 



The "Cultivator,"' cui page 1(1, \o\. S, gives a 

 eorrcspondeiu'e that was published in the 

 "Farmer's Magazine" of December. ISttk grow- 

 ing out of a challenge given by John I'riee, a 

 Hereford breeder of Fnglaiul, to show a bull 

 and twenty breeding cows of the Hereford breed 

 against a similar number of any other brc'd. 

 This challenge called out Mr. Bates, the noted 

 Shorthorn breeder of England, and in the e(u-- 

 respondence Mr. Bates says: "But 1 c(Uisider 

 now, and have for about fortv years been emi- 

 vinced, that the very best Shorthorns, of whuh 

 there are only a few, are capable of improving 

 all other breeds of cattle in the ruite(l King- 

 dom as well as the ordinary Shortluu'ns, which 

 are far from a good breed and inferior to Here- 

 fords, Devons and others." 



(^n page 19. same volume, Mr. Sanford How- 

 ard steps in and gives his testimony as follows: 



"I\Iessrs. Editors '(hilt i\ator" : 1 recollect no- 

 ticing in your paper siuue time since a rcipiest 

 that those who ha\e any kuowleilge of the 

 Hereford catth> would give their o]iinion of its 

 relative merits e()m])ared with the improved 

 Shorthorn and other varieties. In Mr. Hement's 

 c(uumunicatiou, published in the .August num- 

 ber, he says he thinks there has been no impor- 

 tation of llerefords exct>i)ting by i\lr. (May, 

 Messrs. Torning \' Soth.ani. and himself. This 

 is a mistake. In the year IS'.Ti, if mv memory 

 serves me right, the Mas.saehusef ts Society for 

 I'romoting Agriculture received as a present 

 from Admiral Sir Isaac ('olHu, id' the iJoyal 

 Navy, a Inill and a cow of the true Hereford 

 breed, selected either by himself or his agent in 



