267 



This calculation is based on my last year's experience in raising the Connecti- 

 cut seed-leaf variety ; and I am now offered this price at home for my crop. 



A large portion of the labor in gathering and curing the crop, can be done at 

 times not interfering with other crops, and labor on the farm. 



I am of the opinion that the cultivation of tobacco should not be attempted on 

 a large scale at first; and that two or three acres is as much as should bo put in 

 cultivation for a beginning. * * * 



To Albert C. Ingham, Esq. 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



Yours, very truly, 



H.' B. HAWLEY. 



CATTLE 



Webster's Island, Fox Lake, December 25th, 1851. 



Dear Sir — Your letter of November 13th, was received, after being sub- 

 jected to some postal delay ; and this reply would have been earlier, but for 

 the wish to comply with your request to fui'nish a reply on the subject of neat 

 cattle. With this request I had hoped, until recent)}', to have been able to 

 comply; but on attempting to collect the statistics, which it would seem neces- 

 sary to embody in such a document, in order to render it interesting or useful to 

 its readers, I find myself entirely at fault, and should have to fall back on my 

 own resources, and thus injure the cause, which I believe to be not only closely 

 allied, but absolutely identified with the prosperity of our State. Thus situated, 

 it will not be in my power to meet your expectation, or my own wishes fully; 

 but I will submit a few remarks, founded upon my own observation and experience 

 since I have been in the country. With this view, the first thing to be considered, 

 I think, is the use for which the cattle we raise are intended; as no prudent, 

 well informed man would think of raising a fine colored, active, and well- 

 matched pair of woiking oxen from the Durhams — an animal of great size from 

 the Devonshire — or the best points of either from the natives. As well might be 

 expected a good draft horse froni the Indian pony. We have different breeds, and 

 these are adapted to different purposes; the common native cattle of the country 

 prevail generally. Many tarmers have considered that " a cow is a cow" the 

 world over. These cattle are hardy, vigorous, and withstand the severity of our 

 climate well ; but are celebrated for little else. The short horned Durhams are 

 unrivalled for size; and fur aptness to fatten, and quantity of beef, are not sur- 



