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trust ere long, when our own demand will not only be supplied, but 

 a surplus for others be produced. 



We have in this county some good breeds of cattle. Choice Dur- 

 hams are to be found to some extent. A cross of the Holderness has 

 produced some very excellent stock. We have Devons also which 

 are very fine. The best working cattle are of that breed; and I am 

 inclined to the opinion that a cross from the Durham with the Devons 

 would give a breed better than either for our purposes. This county 

 has a very excellent native stock, and a cross with choice full bred 

 animals, will give us a stock of neat cattle equal to any in the coun- 

 try. The attention of farmers is awakened to this subject, and it 

 needs not a prophet to foretell that soon Oneida will exhibit as fine 

 a stock as any of her sister counties. 



Horses, I regret to say, are not such as they should be. For several 

 years past less attention has been paid to a choice selection of the best 

 breeds than formerly. The horse we want we have not amongst us. 

 Very few first rate animals are to be found. I trust that this will not 

 long be permitted to exist. We want " horses of good size, form and 

 strength, clean limb, and good color and action." Horses of this 

 description suited for coach horses, will not only be profitable for the 

 farmer, but will always command a ready market. 



Our swine are good. The improved Berkshire is to be found in al- 

 most every part of the county. The China and Leicester also are among 

 us, and the crosses with good native breeds arti furnishing us with 

 very fine animals. Indeed I have noticed the present season in our 

 market very many hogs from a Berkshire cross, evidencing all the 

 properties of that breed. Purchasers are beginning to learn that a 

 hog whose meat is placed in the right spot, is worth more than one 

 whose superior weight is made up of nose and legs large enough 

 almost for an elephant, and hide thick almost as a rhinoceros. 

 The improvement in swine is most manifest, and is peculiarly grati- 

 fying. 



Of sheep we have the Saxony, Merino, and some of the Leicester, 

 and many of the common sheep. Some flocks of fine woolled which 

 I have seen, are equal to any which have come under my eye. It is 

 hoped some measures will be adopted to raise the price of wool, so 

 as to encourage its growing, as at its present prices it is almost ruin- 

 ous. 



Of agricultural implements we have a great variety. The most 

 improved plows are manufactured here, and the variety is such as to 

 suit almost every taste. The Livingston county plow is probably more 

 generally used than any other pattern. It works well, and for most 

 of our land is preferred to any other. Improved cultivators, drill- 

 barrows, hay-rakes, straw-cutters, threshing-machines, &c. are ge- 

 nerally in use; and as their convenience and usefulness becomes 

 known, they are supplying the place of less useful articles. 



Wc have in this county extensive tracts of wild land. This land, how- 

 ever, is fast settling. Our improved land varies in price from $20 to 

 $100 per acre, though at the latter price but few farms comparative- 

 ly are held. 



