' '74 



been much improved by grading and filling, but it is impossible 

 to describe in a short space, on paper, how poor a condition I 

 found them in. 



My Ayrshire Herd consists of an imported bull, three cows, 

 two heifers and two bull-calves. I have taken great care in 

 selecting those of my animals tliat I have not raised. 



They are only those who either have been imported, those 

 whose immediate ancestors have been] imported, or whose 

 ancestors' pedigrees can be traced back to their progenitors in 

 Scotland. My Ayrshires are mostly young stock, and include 

 an imported bull, and a heifer. Lady Essex, 1413, which has 

 just dropped a fine bull-calf, and which is a promising milker. 

 I have also five grade cows, four of which I bought last Spring. 



Having kept an accurate account of the doings of my cows, 

 I can give the following statement of their yield in pounds, etc. 



The age given is taken on July 1st, 1872; the weights are 

 those recorded March 23d, 1872; and the number of days in 

 milk are comprised between August 26tli, 1871, and August 

 25th, 1872. inclusive. 



My milk is at present all sold to a milkman at the barn. 



I have five half-Chester and half-Suffolk pigs, three months 

 old wlien your Committee saw them, bred by Henry Saltonstall, 

 Esq., West Peabody, Mass. ; also two farm horses. 



My implements are, at present, a No. 4 Clipper Mower, a 

 BuUard Hay Tedder, and other necessary haying implements ; 

 a Holbrook's two-horse swivel, which does almost all my work, 

 an Eagle 20, and other plows ; a Hinge harrow, Sliares', 

 Thomas' smootliing, and the ordinary brusli harrow ; a large, 

 two-horse, cast-iron roller, made in sections; and other neces- 

 sary wagons, tools, etc. 



I have also a collection of carpenter's tools, which have 

 enabled me to eiect several necessary buildings upon the farm. 

 I propose t(; Iniild the addition of forty-five feet in length in 



