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is vexatious indeed. But an agricultural paper is intended 
to benefit , as well as instruct and amuse its readers ; and we 
shall endeavour so to explain these terms, that henceforth our 
subscribers may march confidently to the grounds, assured 
that, in this particular at least, they are safe. 
“ Viewed with the eye of a Farmer, all kinds of live stock 
may be divided into four sorts : 1, Common ; 2, Grade ; 
3, Full-Blood; and 4, Cross-Blood. What the common are, 
all can understand. They are those specimens which, un- 
fortunately, are by far the most numerous among us, which 
have no distinguishing characteristics, no peculiar good 
qualities, no history or pedigree, and we are ignorant from 
what and whence they sprang. They are adapted for life, 
for increase, and for their own enjoyment, but very slightly, 
when compared with others , suitable to the use of man. Now’ 
for, perhaps, the two last centuries, wise and enterprising 
individuals have perceived that every variety of live stock 
which w r e possess might be rendered fitter for the peculiar 
use for which we intend it. Is it a horse we want for speed, 
or draught? an ox for eating or for working? a cow for 
fattening or giving milk? a hog to grub up the weeds for 
a yard’s distance on the other side of the fence, or for pork 
and lard? By studying natural history, by minute ob- 
servation of those small facts which are always before us, but 
which most people overlook, these wise men succeeded in 
producing animals for all useful purposes. Nothing can be 
more dissimilar than the race-horse, and the elephant-like 
animal that solemnly draws tw T o tons weight in the streets of 
London ; — nothing more unlike than the “ land alligator,” and 
the full bred Berkshire or Chinese hogs ; and yet originally 
they all sprung from the same pairs of ancestors. After 
many trials, some failures, and general success, the desired 
end is supposed to be attained; improvement can go no 
further in that direction ; or some one individual male 
animal is produced which includes within itself every good 
quality, and has the faculty of impressing these qualities on 
its produce for all succeeding generations. A Breed is thus 
established; and every individual of that breed, containing 
the same blood, kindred one to another, with the same 
peculiarities, are Full-Blood. Thus the fulhblood English 
horses, are supposed to have been on their dam’s side from 
the old-fashioned common indigenous English horse, the 
best specimens that could be found, but on the sire’s side 
from Arabian horses. Breeding in w r ith the mares of this 
descent, but with different Arabian horses, the breed w’as at 
last established ; and it is said that every full-bred race horse 
