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rich enough to keep poor stock. Four cows that average eight 

 quarts of milk* eat but just half as much as eight cows which 

 average but four quarts. The twelve tons of hay that the four 

 poor ones eat, is worth, in ordinary times, nearly two hundred 

 dollars. About all wasted. The extra manure will hardly pay 

 for the extra labor. We wish to bring these matters close to 

 the minds of our farmers, that they may reap a rich harvest 

 where now they are struggling against anticipated poverty. 

 The princely farmers of Pennsylvania, and of the Genesee and 

 Connecticut Valleys, and of the West, never despise book farm- 

 ing or pure stock. Their cows are Shorthorns, or Ayrshires, or 

 Devons, or some other pure breed. Their sheep arc Sax- 

 onies, or Leicesters, or Southdowns, or something that is clean 

 of its kind ; and so with their fowls, and their turkeys and pigs, 

 and everything else. Farmers, Ictus be thus wise, and, verily, 

 we shall have our reward ! 



Before closing our Report, we desire to state that there are 

 now five males of the best Alderney breed within the reach of 

 our farmers. 



1. " Abe Lincoln." This bull is kept by Mr. James Thomp- 

 son. His mother was " Jenny Lind," and his sire " Dick Swiv- 

 ellcr, Jr.," whose father was from Mr. Motley's cow " Flora," 

 that yielded 512 pounds of butter in a year. This was " Dick 

 Swiveller, Sr.," the grandfather of "Abe." His mother was one 

 of J. S. Eldredge's best imported cows. 



2. " Gen. Burnside." This bull was imported this year by 

 Mr. Thompson. His grand-dam was an imported cow of pure 

 Alderney stock, and which gave twenty-one quarts of milk, beer 

 measure. His sire was " Sultan," of Mr. Motley's stock, and 

 his grandfather was the sire of " Dick Swiveller," or Motley's 

 " Major." This bull is kept by Mr. Thompson. 



3. " McClellan." This animal came from William R. Easton's 

 " Princess," and was sired by " Dick Swiveller, Jr." This bull 

 is owned by Joseph Vincent. 



4. There is also a thoroughbred bull at Sylvanus Morey's, 

 called " Islander." This animal came from " Beauty," and was 

 sired. by " Wellington, 2d," which, as you see, runs directly back 

 to the Peter Lawson, Read and Motley stock. 



5. " Nimrod." Owned by Mr. Thompson. Dam is " Jenny 

 Lind," and his sire " Wellington, 2d." So that we now have 



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