MONTHLY 



JOURNAL OF AGEICULTURE. 



VOL. II. MARCH, 1847. WO. 9. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



ArnsHiRE B»LL, Geordik — whose faithful Portrait appears in this Dumber — was imported in 

 the ship Europe, June, 1846, for R. L. Coi.t. Esq. of Fatcison, N. J. Geordie is a descendant of 

 tlie famous bull of that name, the brag bull of Scotland, and is now rising 3 years old. He was 

 selected for Mr. C. by John Ternant, Esq. of Shields. Mr. T. is Vice President of the Ayrshire 

 Agricultural Society, and a very distinguished farmer. He selected this bull and Mr. Coil's cow- 

 Bessy from the best and purest Ayrshire stock in Scotland. The bull whose portrait is here given 

 took the premium at the Ayrshire Cattle-Show last year ; so that those who see him will see what 

 is deemed a crack specimen of that favorite breed in its very home of homes. This and the Devon 

 race are the two lately selected by the Massachusetts Agricultural Society for importation. 



We understand that some lately arrived at Baltimore for Mr. McHenry, of Hartford county, 

 sent by his friend and relative, McHenry Boyd, Esq., lately Secretary of Legation to our Mission 

 to England. We have now as fine specimens of cattle, of all the principal breeds of Great Brit- 

 ain, as arc to be found there. 



Devon C.\ttt,e. — We may express our own doubts whether there is a herd at once so per- 

 fect and so large as Mr. Geougk Patterson's, in Maryland. He, too, has lately imported an- 

 other bull, laying his agent, as usual, under no limit as to price. We understand that Col. Capron 

 lately hail the good luck to get some of his stock, and we hazard nothing in saying they will be 

 pnzcd and cared for as they should be, which has not always been the fate of this race of cattle. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



The signs that indicate an awakening interest for Agriculture throughout the 

 country, and the desire now evinced in some of the States to see what aid it, too, 

 may fairly claim from men in authority, lead us to believe that we may render 

 an acceptable service by a review of what has been done in the " Old Bay State," 

 where excellence in the various brnnches of rural industry has been elicited and 

 rewarded, for many years successively, by the ofl'er of premiums, under legisla- 

 tive sanction. Massachusetts is selected, to show what has been there accom- 

 plished, not only for the reason that she is among the oldest sisters of the Re- 

 public, and that she was among the first to form Societies and publish Memoirs 

 for the benefit of the cause — but because, having to contend, with indomitable 

 persistance, against natural ruggedness and disadvantages of soil and climate, 

 there seems to be a peculiar fitness and usefulness in holding up her excellence,, 

 in various departments, as being at once worthy of emulation and quite within 

 the reach of successful rivalry, and even of being surpassed by States more fa- 

 vorably situated, if undertaken with a corresponding degree of earnestness and 

 constancy. We do not say skxU, for the reason that we are not among those 

 who believe, and would persuade the world, that the principles and true pro- 

 cesses of husbandry are better understood in the North than in the South ; that 

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