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225 pounds. This bi'eed is particularly noted (where it is better 

 known) for its quiet habits, for its readiness to fat while young, and 

 is also capable of making large hogs if kept long enough. They are 

 said to be always ready for the butcher's knife, and make more pork 

 than any other breed for the amount of food consumed. The Albany 

 Cultivator states that the average weight of the Chester stock at 

 sixteen months old is from 500 to 600 pounds, and when kept till 

 two years old they frequently run up to 700 and 800 pounds We 

 would cheerfully recommend this breed to all admirers of good 

 porkers." 



Crops. 



There appears to have been but little competition on crops, at 

 least so far as the returns show. A paper purporting to be a report 

 on root crops awards divers premiums, but only upon pumpkins and 

 squashes. One statement only is found o?i grain, by Thomas L. 

 Pratt of Bloomfield, whose crop of Indian corn was 881 bushels on 

 one acre ; yellow loam ; in grass for five years before ; twenty loads 

 barn manure, spread. Five bushels beans grown on same acre. 



