mer to raise a colt and sell it ior $100...

mer to raise a colt and sell it ior $100, will it not pay him much better to raise one that at the same age would find aready sale at $150? "VVe have in this county some 2,000 cows. Their average value does not exceed 835, or $70,000 f or the lot. Improve this stock add $10 thereby to the value of each, and yon tdd $00,000 to the wealth of the county. It costs no more to raise a grade calf than a native, yet it is certainly when two years o!d at least worth $10 more. This is all proflt. I venture the assertion that tbc 2,000 cows in this county do not average 200 pounds of butter each per year. Yet we have well authenticated instances of cows far exceeding this. In a popular agricultural paper, during the past year, I noticed the record of a Jersey cow which gave 480 pounds in one year, and another which gave 511 pounds, and a young grade Jersey that yielded 860 pounds. You all value the importance and necessity of using new and improved varieties of seed, why not take the same pains with your stock'? Two thousand cows in this county averaging 800 pounds of butter each per year at twenty cents per pound would be worth more than doublé the wheat erop of the county. Yet wheat is considered the erop. It would be well to bear in mind, that a farming district may be judged of by its stock as safely as by its wheat fields. Farmers, in view of these facts I ask you to take advantage of the opportunities afforded you, to improve your stock. Some of our "Fancy Farmers" have recently, in horses, broujfht somete jKentucky's best blood into this conncy. Valuable additions have been made f rom other counties nearer home and quite recently an imported Xormitn Perdieron has been added. Thoroughbred Short-horns,T)evons and other breeds of cattle have been brought here, and L hope soon to see the Ilolsteins. Our agricultural interests cannot be unduly depressed without injuring all others. Every horse of pure l)Kr..l, cvery lieail ui fehoronghbrad stock of any kind brought into this part of the State will aid in the right direction and will add in a few years, thousands of dollars to the wealth of our county.