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Excerpt from Transactions of the Agricultural Societies of Massachusetts, for the Year 1847: Collated From the Original Returns Should the Opposers of the introduction of the foreign breeds of animals reason philosophically upon the subject, and base their conclusions upon the immutable laws of animal physiol ogy, they would readily understand why their native cow, in whose blood there are blended many Of different races of good and bad qualities, might, and in all probability would, produce a worthless calf. They might also, by this mode of reasoning, be induced no longer to question the expediency of expending a few thousand dollars, in procuring a certain. Means of improving the stock of the whole Commonwealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.