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Excerpt from Message From the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress; With the Reports of the Heads of Departments, and Selections From Accompanying Documents
The very important subject of breeding horses for cavalry uses is attracting attention, and is worthy of encouragement.
Cattle -the large amount of beef consumed by the army, the scarcity of corn and fodder the last winter, and the drought of the past summer, will reduce to a considerable extent the number of cattle to be fattened this year.
As the supply of cattle is evidently becoming inadequate to meet the wants of the army, and the people of the country, increased as they are by the vast in?ux of immigrants, who are for the first year, at least, of their residence, non producers, it seems to me to be the duty of the farmers to raise more cattle, and not to slaughter their calves, as is the too common practice.
The products of the daily have been in great demand, and but for the drought would have very largely exceeded any previous year. The intro duction of the best English breeds of cattle, and our own improved breeding, have greatly increased the value of our stock.
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