PRACTICAL PAPERS—FARM• MANAGEMENT. 
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is his farm and the surrounding circumstances best adapted. 
If there is a cheese factory within his reach, perhaps that may 
be his best course; if not a cheese factory, if he has suitable 
help and if he has it within his own family, then so much the 
better, a butter dairy with the raising of young stock, may 
be the best for him. 
The rearing of good horses may be followed with profit, or 
a flock of sheep, great or small, according to the area of the 
farm, will pay a fair profit and do more than any other stock 
to keep up the farm when well managed. On small farms and 
with a home market for early lambs the combing wools may 
be made to pay best, but on larger farms, or those remote from 
market, the Merinos may be made to pay best, as they will 
herd in larger flocks than the combing wools, and are not as 
gross feeders. 
Whatever variety of cattle, sheep and hogs the farmer keeps 
should be of the best kind obtainable within reasonable price, 
and then he should breed only to thoroughbred males, if it is 
in his power to buy or hire such; when he is not able, let 
a number combine and buy one for their use, and it will soon 
pay the principal and interest. Every intelligent breeder of 
cattle knows the difference between high grade short-horns, 
bred from thoroughbreds on one side, in propensity to fatten, 
early maturity and profit over the native stock. To attempt 
to improve grade stock with grade the result is' too slow to 
accomplish much in a life-time, as the propensity to breed back 
is strong in the native, and the breeder is like a blind man 
groping his way along, sometimes forward and sometimes 
backward. But not so with the intelligent man who breeds 
grades to thoroughbreds ; he knows that each successive cross 
brings him nearer his standard or type of excellence. In this 
way a single thoroughbred has been known to add thousands 
of dollars to the value of grade cattle in the same or adjoining 
towns. 
With the horse the term thoroughbred is monopolized by 
the race-horse, while other breeds are of remote origin, so that 
the breeder of horses will be governed by the rule laid down, 
