Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ature early the following weights, copiedfrom the report of the Smithfield Club, of England, will show : — Steer, twenty-two and one half months old, weighed 1390 lbs. Heifer, twenty-one and three quarters months old, weighed 1258 lbs. Steer, twenty-three and one half months old, weighed 1500 lbs
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ature early the following weights, copiedfrom the report of the Smithfield Club, of England, will show : — Steer, twenty-two and one half months old, weighed 1390 lbs. Heifer, twenty-one and three quarters months old, weighed 1258 lbs. Steer, twenty-three and one half months old, weighed 1500 lbs. Steer, twenty-two months old, weighed 1336 lbs. At the same show a mature cow was exhibited that weighed 1903 dairy cattle they show good records, giving an average of 5500 pounds ofmilk per year, and some have exceeded 500 pounds of butter in a year, milk-ing over 300 days. While the United States can show as good horses as any other country inthe world, they are not as generally distributed among the farmers as areanimals of other breeds of stock. This perhaps can be accounted for, first,from the fact that a horse must be mature, and not less than six years old,before it can be put on the market; and that the low price of the service — THE CENTURYS PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE 323. roLAXD-C HIXA HOfi. fee of grades and scrub stallions — is too great a temptation to the farmerwho is in debt and short of money. Still, our standard has been advancingand there is a sure but slow bettering of the working stock of the country. In the draft class we have the aSTorrnan, Percheron, Clydesdale, and Belgian,and possibly some others, while the Cleveland Bay conies as near the general-purpose horse as any other breed. The importations that have given us themagnificent horses which are beingused in this country have been madechiefly from France, England, Bel-gium, and Germany. The blood ofthe English thoroughbred and of theArab has also contributed to the de-velopment of the q
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