Keep your best stock.
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Many farmers are in the habit Of selling
their best animals, 40 they will bring the
highest price. A greater mistake cannot
be made. A difference Of ten or twenty
per cent in the price Of single animal, i
a small affair compared with this difference
in a whole herd. BY keeping the very best
to propagate from, the whole may be made
Of equal excellence, and in the course Of
few years, numerous animals might be pro.
duced having the excellent properties that
now distinguish some few Of the best.


What should we say Of farmer who
has several highly valuable varieties Of ,po-
tAtoes, and other kinds that are inferior, and
for the sake Of ten cents extra for a bushel,
lie sells for consumption all his best yari-
cites, and plants those that arc inferior,
when in consequence Of this impfudent
measure, his next crop will fall short twen-
ty five per cent. Every one will condemn
this course, and few, If any, are 80 wanting
in discretion as 70 pursue IL; yet many
take q similar course in selling their best
animals, and propagating from the poor.


For the purposes Of work, beet, and the
dairy, there are probably no cattle superior
to our native breed, where attention has
been given 70 improve them, though some
Improvement for certain purposes may DO
made by cross with foreign breeds that
excel in the qualities desired. There is a
vast difference in our cattle in sections
where much attention has been given to
Improvement by selecting the best, when
contrasted with those where little or no at :
tention has been paid to the subject, and as
a matter Of course, the best have been sold,
or eaten up because they were the latest.


very man that raises stock has it in his
power TO make improvements, and he
should avail himself Of all the advantages
around him to turn this power to the ben
eft Of himself and posterity.-l Bost. Gull
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