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and five pound3. In one week in the third month, her milk 

 ■weighed two hundred and eighteen pounds. From her milk 

 in these three weeks, forty pounds of butter were made. 

 Seven quarts of her milk, given at night on the 29th of Septem- 

 ber, made one pound of butter. Mr. Pope has another cow, 

 principally of the Durham breed. From the milk of these two 

 cows during four months, from the first of June onward, four 

 hundred and twenty-five pounds of new milk cheese were made, 

 and one hundred and twenty -four pounds of butter. 



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Geo. Brown says of grade Norfolks, that they make hogs of 

 four hundred to five hundred pounds, fatten easily and are quiet ; 

 the pork better than Norfolk, the animals larger than Suffolk 



alone. 



Aaron Iloag of Gardiner, says of his cross between White 

 Chester and French boar, that " their combined qualities are 

 superior to all others j" challenges the State to produce a bet- 

 ter ; says " the above breed knocks everything else in hogdom 

 hio'her than Gibraltar." 



J. Higgins of Farmingdale, commends a cross of Suffolk and 

 Mackay, as peaceable, cheaply kept, and will fatten on raw 

 roots. 



Sheep. 

 James Gould of Fittston, and Jesse Higgins of Farmingdale, 

 prefer cross of " Leicester and Merino for size and mutton." 



Horses. 

 W. S. Grant of Farmingdale, describes his stock horse " Ris- 

 ing Sun," as from an English mare by an English blood horse — 

 commends him for size, speed, mild disposition, and a getter of 

 good stock. 



