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Grass movvintr machine. This is for cultinf? 

 grass on lawns, pleasure grounds, and bowling 

 greens, and is so easy to manage, that persons 

 unpractised in the art of mowing, may in a short 

 lime use it with ease. 



Hay bay beaier. This machine is for the pur- 

 pose of taking the dust out of mouldy hay, pre- 

 vious to use or being cut into chalf. 



Messrs Bond, Tumor & Hanihlin exhibited a 

 very superior and powerful thrashing machine of 

 four horse power — the manner it performed its 

 work was particularly admired, and which thrash- 

 ed in a superior manner twenty-four bushels of 

 wheat in twenty minutes, being more by one fifth 

 than any other machine realized in the same pe- 

 riod of time. 



'' The portable hand-power thrashing machine, 

 Ehown by Mr. B. Urry, of Newport, Isle of Wight, 

 was decidedly one of tlie most excellent machines 

 of that description we ever had the pleasure to 

 witness. The apparent ease with which it was 

 worked, and the large quantity of wheat thrashed 

 out in a limited period, were the theme of univer- 

 eai approbation." 



CREAM rOT CATTLE, AND TEN HILLS FARM. 



From the Culiivator. 



One of the most attractive places to the agricul- 

 turist, in the vicinity of Boston, is the Ten Hills 

 farm, occupied and managed by Col. S. Jacques, 

 and owned by an association principally composed 

 of rich merchants in Boston. The object of the 

 association was to Ibrni a stock tarm, and a com- 

 pany was formed of one hundred shares of three 

 hundred dollars each, the property held in trust 

 for the owners of the shares. On this money the 

 proprietors receive from Col. Jacrjues five per 

 cent, annually, or filteen hundred dollars in the 

 •whole. It is a noble instance of private iilierality, 

 li^r the advancement of agriculture. How easily 

 might such a pattern farm be established in any 

 of our rich agricultural counties, if the sime spirit 

 of improvement was as operative in them as in 

 Boston. On this farm, Col. Jacques bred the ce- 

 lebrated Merino ram which yielded 42 lbs. of 

 wool at three shearings, an amount piobably not 

 equalled by that of any sheep in this country. Me- 

 rino or otherwise. 



But the most interesting object on the Ten 

 Hills farm is the breed of cattle, called by Co'. 

 Jacques, the cream-pot breed, and which for 

 richness of milk are unrivalled. The origin of 

 this stock, according to Mr. Colman, was a fine 

 native cow raised in Grotcn, Massachusetts, but 

 of her origin farther, nothing is known. She was 

 sold to a gentleman near Boston, a dealer in milk, 

 and so rich was her milk, that the movement ne- 

 cessary in carrying it, I'requently convened it into 

 butter. Mr. Jacques procured this cow, and by 

 crossing with the short-horn bull Coelebs, after- 

 wards owned by Mr. Jacques, originated the breed 

 which has since become so (amous. Mr. Jacques 

 a short time since informed Gov. Hill, that " this 

 celebrated bull, while in liis possession, went to 

 four hundred cows at ten dollars each ; and on 

 his head he received in cash thiny-eight hundred 

 dollars." Col. Jacques' improvements have re- 

 ceived the teal of three generations, and he hm 



now about forty cows and heifers, and ten or a do- 

 zen bulls and bull-calves. The color of ihis stock 

 is a rich deep red, one of the most beautiful and 

 favorite colors, and of good (orm and proportions; 

 and in the language of Mr. Colman, " if they 

 continue to display the extraordinary properties by 

 which they are now distinguished, they promise 

 to prove themselves for dairy purposes the most 

 valuable race of animals ever known among us ;" 

 and in that of Gov. Hiil, "such an animal as the 

 five months' calli at the price of one hundred dol- 

 lars, lor a breeder, would be capital well invested, 

 if kept only for the use of a liirm of a dozen 

 cows.'' 



Col. Jacques' own account of the manner and 

 object in his course of breeding, is as follows: 

 "!t has been my object to eifect such an improve- 

 ment in milch cows, as should produce the great- 

 est quantity of rich milk, affording the largest 

 quantity of butter. There is a greater difference 

 in a pecuniary point of view, between a good and 

 a poor cow, than among any other don)esiic ani- 

 mals. In some yards may be found those that 

 will not produce moie than three pounds per 

 week, and others that will make nine, and all on 

 the same keep. As v\'e sometimes hear of cows, 

 which have produced seventeen pounds of butter 

 per week, and even more, it occurred to me to in- 

 quire why a breed or race could not be formed 

 with the same valuable properties. This I have 

 attempted ; and have carried it to tfie third gene- 

 ration, and I am confiilent of success. I have a 

 cow whose milk has produced nine pounds of the 

 best butler in three days; and this on grass feed 

 only. This I call my cream pot breed.^'' 



It is evident to us that Col. Jacques has adopted 

 the true course in producing a valuable stock. He 

 selected animals combining the qualities he de- 

 sired to perpetuate in the greatest degree; and in 

 continuing his operations, a selection ofonly such lor 

 breeding as evince the same properiies, have been 

 chosen by him. With this precaution, he cannot 

 fail of success. The qualities that in the first in- 

 stance may have been partially accidental, become 

 constitutional and permanent, and we can see no 

 good reason why the cream-pot stock of Mr. 

 Jacques should not become as celebrated as the 

 short-horns of Messrs. Collings or Berry, to which, 

 indeed, they are so nearly allied. 



LIGHTNING UODS FOR BARNS. 



From ttie Cultivator. 

 No sooner is the harvest gaiiiered, and the farm- 

 ers' barns well stored with hay ami grain, than 

 the newspapers are constantly bringing us accounts 

 of their destruction by lightning. Every year the 

 loss sustained by the burning of barns by light- 

 ning, is far greater than that of dwelling liouses, 

 and more lives, we believe, are annually lost in 

 them; yet, while houses are protecleil by conduct- 

 ors, or insured against fire, barns are left to take care 

 of themselves. In a single storm that passed over 

 the Delaware river near Trenton, a lew weeks 

 since, three barns were struck and destroyed ; 14 

 cows were lost in one, and the whole loss was 

 several thousand dollars. None were protected, 

 and on one only was there a trifling insurance. 

 The reason why barns at euch a seaeon of the 



