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the farmers. The Bissel ox, of East Windsor, Conn., noted at the time 

 as being the largest in the States, if not in the world, was of this stock of red 

 cattle — a noble animal. My brother saw him, and to exhibit his dimen- 

 sions, a one-half bushel was placed upon his back, between his pipe, and a 

 peck measure on each side of it, and stood without assistance. His weight 

 was between 3,000 and 4,000 lbs. The bull, when killed, weighed 1,700 or 

 1,800, and was said not to be fat. My father had killed, of mixed breed, 

 that weighed over 1,100. 



Col. Wadsworth was a farmer, considered at that time of large fortune, 

 owning many farms about Hartford, on which this stock was kept. He 

 owned, besides, a large tract of land in the Genesee country of this State, 

 which, as I understood, he employed two of his nephews to survey and 

 dispose of, giving them the privilege to select as much and where they 

 chose, for themselves. Somewhere between 1800 and 1806, or 1808, they 

 at several times, visited Hartford, to get of this stock of cattle and horses 

 from their uncle's farm. My father was selected by the parties to appraise 

 the stock they took home with them, as well as some purchased of my 

 father — his being red. 



In after years, droves of these, or from this stock, were driven through 

 the country, which the drc. ers reported were purchased from these Gene- 

 see Wadsworths. There was exhibited at the State fair at Poughkeepsie, a 

 number of yoke of working oxen — perhaps as many as ten — that appeared to 

 be of this same stock, owned, as was said, by these western Wadsworths, who 

 at this time, I believe, are neither of them living. And the principal part 

 of those familiar with this important importation having passed away, is 

 my apology for these remarks. I might add that this Col. Wadsworth was 

 said to belong to General Washington's staff; probably had charge of the 

 commissary department. 



I might add to a subject on which a great deal has been said — that of 

 corn ground in the ear, called cob-meal — that from forty years' experience, 

 it is a favorite of mine for fattening oxen and working horses, and espe- 

 cially in fattening swine, after they are five or six months old, previous to 

 which I prefer rye, ground, or its bran — corn, at that age, being too hearty. 

 After this age they want as much as they will eat, and I consider the cob- 

 meal will do them as much good as clear meal, which is apt to clog, being 

 more than they can digest, and is wasted, passing the stomach more readily 

 than cob-meal, and yet the cob contains more or less nourishment. 



Experiments of forty years convinced me that pork can be made for four 

 cents per pound, feeding corn at fifty cents per bushel, ground as above, 

 when the farmer has a market for his corn, deliver one load a day at a sea- 

 port market, saving his manure and cartage for the trouble uf feeding. 

 This by selecting hogs that will fatten young, such as the Barryfield ; the 

 Suffolk appears much like them, yet, I think, smaller. Such hogs, with 

 proper attention, will make from 200 to 300 lbs. of pork, at from eight to 

 ten months old. 



I fattened two pigs the last season, that I consider did not cost me the 



