76 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



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Indian corn, 



Cabbages, .... 

 Apples, .... 

 Cider, .... 



In addition to these, were raised garden vegetables sufficient 

 for ray own family and that of my foreman. 



The stock on the farm consists of: — 



Cows 50, including two-year-old heifers that have calved; 

 yearlings, 12 ; calves, from four to ten mouths old, 14 ; two 

 years' old steers, 2 ; oxen, 4 ; bulls, 2. 



Horses for work, 3 ; breeding mare, 1 ; four-year-old colts, 

 3 ; three -year-old colts, 2 ; yearling colts, 2 ; sucking colt, 1 ; 

 stallion, 1 ; driving horses, 2, 



Swine, fatting and stores, 14 ; breeding sows, 3 ; sucking 

 pigs, 15. 



The cows, heifers and calves are mostly pure and grade 

 Ayrshires ; all bred by myself, except twenty, of which six 

 were imported and fourteen were purchased in the market. I 

 selected this breed, after having satisfied myself that they will 

 make more milk out of a given amount of food than any other 

 cattle — that they are hardy and well adapted to our soil and 

 climate, and that they fatten well, when fed for the shambles. 

 The two-year-old steers enumerated are grade Ayrshires, 

 twins ; and they are well shaped, vigorous, and of good size. 

 The bulls are both Ayrshire — Irvine, imported by the Massa- 

 chusetts Society, and Allard, by Essex, out of an Ayrshire cow 

 imported by Hon. Joseph S. Cabot, of Salem. 



The stallion, one driving horse and six of the colts are of the 

 Black Hawk family, through Trotting Childers. 



Tiic swine are a cross between Chester County and Suffolk ; 

 they reach great size, from four hundred to six hundred pounds, 

 feed easily, and cut well ; often six inches over the shoulder. 



The poultry are — fifty hens, a mixture of Black Spanish and 

 Game, hardy, heavy fowls, and good layers. They carry great 

 thickness of fine grained meat on their breast. The English 

 game cock, cither the Derby or, what I now have, a bird from 

 Lord Berwick's breed, is pretty sure to improve any flock of 

 hens with which he is mixed, always excepting the coarse 

 East India fowls, which persist in being sui generis. Thirty 



