. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 54 II I S T 0 E y OF H E R E F 0 K D CATTLE m answer to them. I have added a few words which I should have put in my answer, but, be- ing rather busily employed just at that time, and the season of the year requiring the answer should not be delayed, my answer was more hastily wrote than I wished, and I did not recol- lect ail that I ought to have mentioned. "You were pleased to think so favorably of my management of the stall-feeding business that you wished me to communicate in writing, w
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 54 II I S T 0 E y OF H E R E F 0 K D CATTLE m answer to them. I have added a few words which I should have put in my answer, but, be- ing rather busily employed just at that time, and the season of the year requiring the answer should not be delayed, my answer was more hastily wrote than I wished, and I did not recol- lect ail that I ought to have mentioned. "You were pleased to think so favorably of my management of the stall-feeding business that you wished me to communicate in writing, with a view to its having a place in your Annals, an account of my method of proceeding throughout. "If I conceived that I had really found out or was possessed of any means excelling what oth- ers knew or practiced, I should most readily and without delay (without vagging the public) give it into your hands, who, we know, would put it in a way doing the most good to all whom it might concern, and the community at large, but I am conscious that there is nothing in my. DARLING, FIRST BULL EVER BRED BY MR. J. L. HEWER. way of carrying on that business that will not as well or better be learned from many other persons, indeed. The enclosed papers (though wrote only as answers to inquiries about feed- ing with potatoes only) tell you almost tlie whole of my proceedings. That you may not, however, suspect me of disinclination to satisfy you about it, and to show you there is nothing extra in my management, I just run over the course here. "The sort of oxen I take for my stall feeding are such as should not go to market till there is the greatest call for prime beef, and for that time they should be completely fat; so that I do not propose any material or regular sale, un- til Candlemas, and sell so as to clear all the stalls some time in May. With this vjew, when I buy cattle in the spring, and on to August, I make no objection to good oxen (that is, mel- low, supple-ficshe
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