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Our stock, though not extensive, is generally good. Samuel Cem- 

 by has his favorite Durham cow Blossom, giving her thirty-six quarts 

 of milk per day when fresh, and sixteen quarts per day until com- 

 ing in. 



Chancey P. Holcomb has his Devon cow Lady, which took the first 

 premium, by yielding the milk which made twenty -one pounds of but- 

 ter in one week. The writer has his little cow Yellow Flower, of na- 

 tive stock, known by many as the " little yellow cow with a white 

 face." I bought her dam many years ago for $116, and kept her for 

 her extraordinary milking quality, until very old. I then fatted her 

 with corn meal, and, when dressed, weighed 285 lbs. The " Yellow 

 Flower" is larger than her dam ; her height, at four years old, was 3 

 feet 10 inches. In my report to our Agricultural Society, I have giv- 

 en the particulars of her milk and butter. 



Many store cattle are annually purchased from drovers from the 

 West, and from Western New York, They winter well, and pasture 

 upon our luxuriant reclaimed river meadows; and sell in the fall to 

 the New- York market. The amount in value of neat cattle in this 

 county, in 1840, was $702,000. The annual product of the dairy, 

 $66,630. Our horses we purchase of western drovers. Of pork, we 

 do not raise our own supply. We deem it belter to sell our corn to 

 an eastern market, and buy our bacon from our western brother farm- 

 ers. Of distilleries, we have none ia this State. Whiskey made, 

 none ; no, not one drop ! 



The following additional particulars are extracted from Mr. Jones's 

 report to the Agricultural Society of New Castle county, as chairman 

 of the committee on crops. 



He congratulated the society on the complete success which had 

 every where attended the use of lime. The offer of a premium by 

 the society, had induced extra exertions in the competitors, and secur- 

 ed results heretofore hardly if ever known amongst them, and which 

 are highly encouraging, when it is considered how illy adapted are the 

 lands naturally to the production of wheat. 



