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What we have shown to have been on a large scale, no doubt, in 
oft repeated instances, exists in smaller ones. A frog pond near 
a dwelling, a sink or cess pool, where accumulating matter is 
allowed to decay, may be as fatal in its limited operations as was 
this wholesale dealing out of malignant vapor on a district where 
health in previous years had been a distinguished quality of the 
climate. How far such visitations may be remedied by timely 
researches and proper precautions, is not for us to say. We leave 
it for an enlightened and sagacious public to draw their own in- 
ferences and make such application as in their wisdom appears 
most proper. 
Richmond, Mass., 1848. 
ON BREEDING COWS FOR THE DAIRY— ADAPTED TO THE 
COUNTY OF HERKIMER. 
BY A. BECKWITH. 
The breeding of domestic animals has always been considered 
an important branch of agriculture. 
In the breeding of that noble and useful animal, the horse, we 
have succeeded well, as the annual exhibition at our county fair 
has proved. And there are few counties in the state where the 
farmers drive better horses than the farmers of Herkimer county. 
The reason of this is obvious; we grow them in the right way; 
we follow the rule which nature has pointed out, and whenever 
we do that, we are sure to succeed. We take our best and most 
perfect animal to breed from; we treat the dam kindly; we give 
her a sufficiency of suitable food; we allow the colt to run with 
her from six to eight months, drawing that sustenance which the 
God of nature intended, and which no art or device of human in- 
genuity can improve. When we take it from the dam, we pay 
particular attention to it, by giving it food well suited to its age. 
We house it during the cold season; in short, we do all that is 
