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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 59, 9 March 1878, Page 4

A loss is often the result by using an inferior or common animal to breed from, when a thorough-brod- could be used at a moderate expeuse. Ordinary cows are too frequently kept with smart returns, when by a judicious selection from good milking strains the profits might be doubled. A loss is often met with by not feeding cows one or two quarts of meal each day, when the pasture gets short and dry. - The profits would in general prove greater if farmers would raise : their own cows, as the value of a cow depends largely upon the good care and good feed they receive when young. .'A- loss is sustained by not putting in an acre of sown corn to use in case of a drought, as oue acre then will produce a much greater profit than ten of dry pasture. A'loss is the result, when twice the yield might have been secured by the application of more manure to tlie crop. By not providing suitable feeding arrangements, boxes, •racks, &c., a great waste and loss occurs by the tramping of good food into the dirt. A serious loss is often incurred by letting grass stand and get too ripe before being cut ; and in this case the damage is two-fold — first, as regards the stock that eat it, and second, the greater exhaustion ofthe soil. — Chatham Courier.