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ported at the same time by Mr. Motley for himself. From May 

 18, 1853, to March 8t]i, 1854, she has made four hmidred and 

 sixty-three pounds butter. Until Nov. 14th, she had nothing 

 but what she got in the pasture, with the exception that she 

 had a feed of corn fodder morning and night during part of 

 August, September and October, when the pastures were very 

 much parched up. This winter her feed has been two quarts 

 corn and cob meal ; about two pecks carrots per day, and oat 

 straw. 



In addition to the above, a manuscript letter of the Hon. 

 Timothy Pickering, addressed to a distinguished farmer of 

 Essex County, has been placed in my hands, and is of such 

 interest, both as throwing light on the earlier importations of 

 the Alderney breed, and as coming from so distinguished a 

 friend of agriculture, that it is given in this connection. 



Salem, October 13tli, 1826. 



Dear Sir : — As you are to receive the Alderney bull in be- 

 half of the Agricultural Society, I enclose the paper describing 

 his qualities, and those of the Alderney breed, which I gave to 

 Brown, when sent with the bull last summer, among the farm- 

 ers. I now add further information, from the letter of my 

 friend, Reuben Haines, of Germantown, near Philadelphia, ad- 

 dressed to Judge Peters, who is President of the Philadelphia 

 Society of Agriculture, and which has been lately published 

 in the fifth volume of the Memoirs of that Society. Mr. Haines' 

 letter is dated in October, 1818, and further experience of his 

 Alderney breed enabled him to confirm what he had written in 

 1818, by a letter to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society, only 

 two or three years ago. This volume I have seen, but do not 

 possess it. The letter first mentioned is as follows, as ad- 

 dressed to Judge Peters : — 



" Gehmantown, October 20, 1818. 



"With this you will receive a pound of butter, made from the 

 Alderney cow, imported in 1815, and now in my possession. 

 She calved on the 13th of last month, and is now in fine condi- 



