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which they soon tire, and if you urge them on you make a toil of plea- 

 sure, at the same time running the risk of injuring or killing them. 

 Not so with fast trotting horses. It is a pleasure for them to travel, 

 which gives pleasure to those who are riding. They have great pow- 

 er to continue fast travellirg, or any kind of labor, and generally a 

 vigorous constitution. They do not require any more care or feed 

 than the common farm horses, and their value is twice as great. They 

 would give large profits to breeders, and present strong inducements 

 for them to improve the breed of horses and stock in general. 



Violetah, a chestnut, full-blooded brood mare, 8 years old, 15 f hands 

 high ; was got by Gohanna, out of the dam Medoc, and was in a five 

 thousand dollar stake, paying forfeit in consequence of an attack of 

 distemper. Fed as blooded horses in general. 



Narcissus, a sorrel filley, 17 months old, 15 hands high ; got by Lo- 

 gan out of a Stargazer mare ; was taken from the mare at 6 months 

 old, and fed with 1 bushel of bran, sugar beets and hay per day, dur- 

 ing the winter. In the spring was turned out to grass without any 

 other feed. 



Yours respectfully, 



GEORGE M. PATCHEN. 



STATEMENT OF JACOB LATTING. 



Lattingtown, Oct. 20th, 1845. 



Noticing the intention of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, of 

 sending to England for the best breed of dairy cattle, induced me to 

 look at minutes made on reading English reports of their cattle, and 

 find the following. 



A cow kept by Wm. Crum, of Lewis, Sussex county, yielded, in 

 1805, 540 lbs. of butter ; in 1807, 675 lbs. ; in 1808, 466 lbs. ; and 

 mentioned that a cow kept by the Rev. Mr. Racket, gave 19 lbs. of 

 butter, avoirdupoise weight, in one week. 



I have a cow that was put to pasture in the early part of June ; 

 about noon she was brought in by the maid, with the milk streaming 

 from her bag, and she proposed milking her three times a day. At 

 each milking she gave between nine and ten quarts, averaging about 

 28 quarts per day, yielding, in three days, six lbs. of butter. She con- 

 tinued that course until the last of July, when the pasture growing 

 short, she was milked but twice a day, the average yield between 18 

 and 20 quarts per day, making four pounds of butter in three days, at 

 which rate she is now proceeding. 



With much respect, 



JACOB LATTING. 



