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The produce in the latter case have been 
to an extraordinary extent superior in bone, 
muscle and constitution to their brothers and 
sisters of the same year 
The same plan has been followed with 
the Hackney-bred yearlings of which we 
have at Elsenham about 30 each year ; they 
are sent, in lots of ten, to three different 
grazing pastures 
When they return in October or November 
the superior condition of those which have 
been feeding on wide ranges of pasture, 
where cattle only had before been grazed, is 
most marked 
It is easy, when the whole thirty are 
paraded together, to pick out the tens and 
say on which of the three pastures they 
have been grazed. The effects of the fresh 
grass are shown in their coats as well as 
their bone and muscle 
I can attribute this superiority to nothing 
else than the fresh grazing. This system has 
not been confined to one year, but has been 
carried out for several years, and always 
with the same results 
Is it too much to assume that a method 
which has been productive of such strikingly 
good results in respect of size, muscle and 
