J12 THE farmer’s manual. 
crops, at the same time, by tillage, but has taught you, 
also, that the same attention to your stock, will enable 
you to derive the same profits from this source of win- 
ter’s husbandry. 
The general hints given as above upon the neces- 
sary attention to your stock, will be sufficient to ex- 
cite the farming interest generally to their stock; 
but the best mode of eflecting this, may be learnt from 
the practice of Mr. Bakewell, the noted reclaimer 
and cultivator of the Dishley farm, (so called,) in Eng- 
land. 
“ The choice of the best breed of horses, cattle, 
sheep and hogs, which is too little regarded, is of 
great importance to a farmer, and deserves his nicest 
attention. The expense is as great, nay, many times 
greater, in keeping a creature of a bad breed, as of a 
good, and the value is very different. It appears 
that the Canada breed of horses would be found ex- 
cellent for the plough, or draught, and the Esopus 
breed for the carriage. In the choice of horses, the 
form should be particularly attended to. The Cana- 
da breed comes the nearest to the form of horses in 
the highest esteem in England, for draught, vix. that 
of a true round barrel, remarkably short, and lower 
over the forehand than any part of the back, the legs 
also short. The Esopus breed, of a proper size, are 
sightly horses for a carriap ; they ore gentle, tracta- 
ble, nnd easily broke, ancf yet have a proper degree 
of spirit, have a good carriage, are easily kept, and 
hardy. The Narraganselt breed have been account- 
ed excellent for the saddle. A cross breed with the 
.\arraganselt and Esopus, or with the English, (known 
by the name of the old Ranger breed,) have been ac- 
counted the best for the saddle in New-England.”— • 
Thompson’s Koles on Farming. 
These breeds are nearly extinct in Connecticut: 
but with proper attention they might be restored. 
“ Mr. Bakewell (of the Dishley farm in England) 
has rendered himself famous by his breed of cattle. 
