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etc. I want to state a fact: In 1820 to 1827, when there wasn’t any 
short-horns, or Devons, or any breed of cows in particular, I was in 
a dairy of twenty cows. I milked ten cows a day for those years, and 
I have never seen any better cows since among any breeds, and I 
have been farming all of the time, and more or less acquainted with 
dairies. Those cows were selected from native breeds on account 
of their qualities as milkers. 
Mr. Seymour: Does it occur to you that during the time men¬ 
tioned, you were actually using stock that had been brought over, 
imported, and actually brought here by Englishmen during the 
colonial times? I wish to recall the fact that in the colonial times 
the well-to-do farmers who came from England, brought with them 
well selected stock, what you call native-stock, and the farmers of 
thirty or forty years ago would have more benefit from that native- 
stock than we have to-day. 
Mr. Clark: My object was to state the fact that notwithstanding 
the short-horns, and all the different breeds, that we should select 
and keep the best. 
FARM-BANKS, OR LITTLE THINGS ON THE FARM, AND 
WHY SOME SELL OUT AND GO WEST. 
BY GEO. P. PEFFER, PEWAUKEE. 
During a period of thirty-five years in the west, by observation 
and experience, I have seen the effects of little things. Care and 
economy in small matters have made some farmers, as well as those 
engaged in other branches of industry, well-to-do, rich even, while 
others, by neglect of these little things, were poor, and had to sell 
out and go west. The farmer who takes care of little things will 
generally have a good house, good barns, and out-buildings, good 
stock and tools, and a good place to put them. He takes papers, 
and finds'll me to read them, and is thus aided in forming his plans 
and strengthening his work. He cultivates his mind, and thus his 
hands are guided to do more and better work, keep his soil in better 
fertility, and generally to advance his own material interests, as well 
as the welfare of those around him. He puts his crops in in sea- 
