The New England farmer . t all interested in the wool industry ofthe country will read this little pamphlet of onlysixteen pages and decide for themselves whetherthese charges are sustained by the facts and ar-guments adduced in their support. Rules, Regulations and Schedule of Premiums forthe Fourth Grand State Fair of the Mechanics andAgricultural Fair Association of Louisiana, to com-mence on fiaturdry, April 23,1870, at New Holmes, Secretary and Treasurer. In addition to the liberal premiums offered inthis list, which includes $1700 for cotton, $5000are set apart for objects
The New England farmer . t all interested in the wool industry ofthe country will read this little pamphlet of onlysixteen pages and decide for themselves whetherthese charges are sustained by the facts and ar-guments adduced in their support. Rules, Regulations and Schedule of Premiums forthe Fourth Grand State Fair of the Mechanics andAgricultural Fair Association of Louisiana, to com-mence on fiaturdry, April 23,1870, at New Holmes, Secretary and Treasurer. In addition to the liberal premiums offered inthis list, which includes $1700 for cotton, $5000are set apart for objects of special interest not enu-merated in the programme, A grand exhibition isanticipated, and the managers remark that it isevident that the true key-note of Southern devel-opment has been sounded. The practical men ofthe country, who are uniting in organizationssimilar to ours, &re doing more to promote theprosperity of this section of our country than hasever before been accomplished. 116 NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. LIarch. SHORT-HOKN BULL OF DAIRY STOCK. According to the statistics of our Brightoncattle market reporter, of the 129,353 cattle?which were sold in 1869, 86,365 were West-ern; in 1865 of 117,866 sold, 38,233 wereWestern. Showing an increase in receipts ofWestern cattle from less than one-third, fouryears ago, to over two-thirds of all the stockoffered the past year. To supply this rapidlyincreasing demand, the farmers of the Westmake a specialty of raising steers, as thoseof New York and New England do of thedairy. For these two purposes, different races ofcattle are required, or at least different fami-lies of the same breed,—those that have beenreared with special reference to the develop-ment of particular qualities. Thus, somefamilies of the Short-horns have been bred toa comparatively high degree of excellence forthe dairy, while others have been bred withspecial reference to the perfection of thosepoints which please the butcher. At the West, where farmers care le
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