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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



an imported bull and a heifer, Lady Essex, 1,413, which 

 has just dropped a fine bull-calf, and which is a promising 

 milker. I have also five grade cows, four of which I bought 

 last spring. 



Having kept an accurate account of the doings of my 

 cows, I can give the following statement of their yield in 

 pounds, &c. 



The age given is taken on July 1, 1872; the weights are 

 those recorded March 23, 1872, and the number of days in 

 milk are comprised between August 26, 1871, and August 

 25, 1872, inclusive. 



My milk is at present all sold to a milkman at the barn. 



I have five half-Chester and half-Suffolk pigs, three months 

 old when your committee saw them, bred by Henry Salton- 

 stall, Esq., West Peabody, Mass. ; also two farm-horses. 



My implements are at present a No. 4 Clipper Mower, a 

 Bullard Hay-Tedder, and other necessary haying-implements ; 

 a Holbrook's two-horse Swivel, which does almost all my 

 work, an Eagle 20, and other ploughs; a Hinge-Harrow, 

 Shares', Thomas' Smoothing, and the ordinary Brush-Harrow ; 

 a large, two-horse, cast-iron Roller, made in sections, and 

 other necessary wagons, tools, &c. 



I have also a collection of carpenters' tools, which have 

 enabled me to erect several necessary buildings upon the farm. 

 I propose to build an addition of forty-five feet in length in 

 the rear of my barn during the coming winter, and do as 

 much of it as possible upon the farm. 



Since writing the foregoing, after having visited many of 

 the most noted Ayrshire herds, I bought two heifers in milk, 

 whose blood seemed to be most remarkable for its milking 

 properties. 



