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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Thus knowing his animals more fully, the keeper will ap¬ 
preciate and treat them more rationally and kindly, which will 
result in higher humanizing effects—rendering the animals 
better servants, and the keepers better men. But to secure 
this desirable result, all stock must be often and familiarly 
handled, and led with halters, while young—colts and calves; 
and if all be done kindly and without anger, they wdll be as 
docile and readily approached at all times as dogs and cats at 
the house. But farmers will not be likely to take the pains to 
do this, without they adopt a steady and regular system 
which will lead to it as an essential part of their operations 
on the farm. 
To describe, in detail, such a course is the object of this 
paper; and the principal feature of it is, to urge the 
KEEPING AND FEEDING ALL STOCK IN YARDS OR STABLES, 
allowing none of the animals to run at large, in the streets or 
fields, whereby they would fail to be handled daily, and be¬ 
come more or less wild and unapproachable; to urge raising 
and cutting feed for all, to be delivered‘to and eaten by them 
in the yard or stable. 
But, it will justly be asked—“Will this process pay ?” will 
the increased benefits pay for the cutting all the feed and de¬ 
livering it to the stock in the yards or stables ? We believe 
the following facts and calculations fully jTOve that it will: 
1. The stock being tame and approachable, at all times, 
are more saleable and will command better prices—other things 
being equal—than those which are not tame; as purchasers 
prefer animals which are gentle and orderly to those which are 
wild and captious—whether horses, oxen, cows or colts ; 
while they are always ready at hand, in the best plight and 
condition for inspection by inquiring purchasers. The opera¬ 
tion is thus as profitable to the purse as pleasant to the 
patience. 2. Then, being regularly handled and trained from 
infancy, the dangers and difficulty of breaking colts, steers and 
heifers are avoided, which the breeder is subjected to under 
the usual practice ; as, under this system, they grow up al- 
