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Tor beef or milk. We have seen several of them. 

 They are small in size and generally inTerior in 

 shape and appearance, and seldom exhibit much 

 thrift. They are not tu be chosen lor beef. They 

 are not remarkable for giving great quantities of 

 milk, but they are remarkable !br giving milk of 

 extraordinary richness ; and persons in England 

 and this country keep them for the sake of the rich 

 cream lor their" tables. They are in general of a 

 light red or a gray dun or lawn color, with small 

 and crooked horns. Reuben HainPs,of German- 

 town, Penn., in 1823, says—" I have now a little 

 full breJ AlJerney cow, reared on my farm, which 

 will be only lour years old next harvest. She had 

 her third calf on the first of last month; and on the 

 nineteenth we had rather more than ten pounds of 

 delicious butter from twelve quarts of her cream, 

 obtained from fourteen milkings ; that is, in one 

 week. Her only (bod through the winter has been 

 good hay and brewers' grains — the latter article 

 well known to be useful in promoting the secretion 

 of milk, but not increasing the quantity or improv- 

 ing the quality of the butter. One remarkable 

 property of the cream of the Alderney cow is, the 

 readiness with which it is converted into butter.'' 

 John Lawrence says, that " an Alderney cow 



that had strayed on the premises of a friend of his, 

 and remained there three weeks, made nineteen 

 pounds of butter e^^ch week, and the fact was held 

 so extraordinary, as to bs thought worthy of a 

 memorandum in the parish books." (Farmers' 

 Series.) 



They are originally from Normandy, in France; 

 and are said, when dried off, to fatten with great 

 ease. They are constantly imported into England, 

 being admired for the properties to which we have 

 above referred; but some disappointment has occa- 

 sionally occurred, lor the true reason that the pas- 

 turage in England is not so good as in their native 

 land. Like all other animals from whom we arc 

 to look for any thing valuable, they require liberal 

 leeding and the best care. VVe must not expect 

 impossibilities. VVe remember very well a friend's 

 having purchased a cow from a town abounding in 

 the richest pasturage; and upon taking her to his 

 own inferior pastures she fell very much short of 

 the yield which he had been infcrmed she had been 

 accustomed to give. He complained to the seller 

 of the cow that she had not fulfilled his recommen- 

 dation. "Why," said the farmer, "I sold you the 

 cow, but I did not sell you my pastures too." 



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CONTENTS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER, NO. XI. VOL. VIII. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Method of retarding the hatching of silk- 

 worms' eggs in ice-houses - - - 649 

 Kentucky blue-grass - - - 650 j 

 Questions and suggestions . - - C52 i 

 Postscript, on Kentucky blue-grass (or Virgi- j 

 nia green-sward) - . - - 661 j 

 Republication of Taylor's ' Arator' - 662 i 

 Meeting of tobacco planters - - - 662! 

 Benefit of the treading of animals on newly I 

 sown wheat. The '' trampling roller" - C79 

 Remarks on the soils and marling of the Pa- j 

 munkey lands. Introductoiy to the queries { 

 and answers thereon ... 679 

 Queries to ascertain the action and effects of | 

 shell-marl as manure . - - 683 1 

 Answers to the queries in relation to green- ] 

 sand marl, by William F. Wickham, of 

 South Wales farm - - - - 684 1 

 Do. by Corbin Braxton, of Chericoke farm 687 

 Do. by Carter Braxton, of Newcastle farm 688 [ 

 Do. by WilUams Carter of Broad Neck j 

 farm, in regard to green-sand alone - 689 

 Concluding remarks on green-sand marling 690 

 Transportation of marl on the Pamunkey ri- 

 ver, and its expense ... 691 

 Currant and black-berry wines - - 692 

 Proceedings of the Mason, Cabell and Ka- 

 nawha Agricultural Society, in regard to 

 the establishment of a State Board of Agri- 

 culture ..... 693 

 To small farmers ... - 693 

 Monthl}^ commercial report ... 699 

 Petition to the congress of the United States 

 to equalize the rate of postage on newspa- 

 pers and periodicals ... 699 



SELECTIONS. 



Holstein dairies .... 641 



Balloon adventure at night - - 644 



Experimental crop of corn ... 645 



Buckwheat .... 646 



Irish potatoes raised from slips - - 646 



Iron cottages .... 646 



Preserving fruit from late frosts 



Inspections of tobacco in Virginia 



Rearing hogs . - - 



Blossom . - . - - 



A kingdom embanked from the sea - 



Siberian life on the Kolyma 



Cotton in India .... 



Competition of East India cotton with Ame- 

 rican cotton .... 



Cotton trade . . . - 



Mode of living of the primitive settlers of the 



Valley of Virginia ... 



Fuel ...... 



The army worm .... 



Barnum's machine for heating water - 



Hoven cattle .... 



The drained pond .... 



Food for stock. Cymblin (or squash) culture 



Treatment of peach trees ... 



Bloody milk — inquiry ... 

 ["Milking" ..... 

 j Rules for breeding 



; Culture of the strawberry ... 

 j The ice mountain of Hampshire, Va. 

 1 On the use and value of liquid manure 



To destroy the striped bug 

 j The disposition to fatten of different breeds of 

 hogs ..... 



Bones as manure . . - - 



Importance of manure. Kliyogg the Svriss 

 farmer r - - - - 



Eradication of weeds - - - - 



Trenching .... 



The new theory in regard to the retarding the 

 hatching of silk-worms' eggs — pro and con 



Poitou asses ..... 



Harvesting carrots ... 



Kidney-worm in swine 



Sowing grass-seed in woodland 



Report on arboriculture 



Worcester [Mass.] Agricultural Society - 



National gallery of manufactures and agricul- 

 ture . . . - - 



Alderney cows .... 



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