Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

The colour of cattle.—A writer in the New-England Farmer, under the signature of Agricola, attributes such importance to the colour of cattle: "Having been for some years a considerable traveller in New-England, I have noticed that the best farmers always have the best cattle. Where you find, as in Worcester county, large barns, strong walls, square lots, great crops of rowen; large wood piles, fat horses, well painted houses, and all the ordinary indications of plenty and independence, you invariably find red and brown oxen and cows. Selection from his calves, or three or four years, of red, brown, or brindle, by any farmer, will soon teach him the value of the expedient; a bright red is to be preferred; but next to this, the brown, and then the mixture of both, (the brindle,) which is an excellent hardy colour for working oxen. No purchaser of oxen or cows overlooks the article of colour."