1869. 



NEW ENGLAM) FAEMER. 



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farmers made the first importations of Gallo- 

 ways into the vicinity of Toronto, in Canada 

 West. Their attachment to them in Scot- 

 land was too strong to be overlooked or for- 

 gotten in their new homes. The cattle pos- 

 sessed certain qualities which they found here 

 in no other race, and with a characteristic love 

 • of their native land, as they loved the poetry 

 of Burns, and repeated his songs, they also 

 longed for and sought the cattle of their na- 

 tive hills and heather. There must have been 

 other importations, for in the year 1857, we 

 saw upwards of forty of them exhibited by 

 competing owners at a Provincial agricultural 

 show, at Brantfovd, and have since met them 

 in equal numbers at other shows in the Prov- 

 ince. They were fine cattle — fult, round, and 

 comely in form, and in appearance ; and taken 

 altogether, fully answered Mr. Youatt's de- 

 scription. 



Their lack of horn is thought by some to be 

 a great merit, but though they cannot Iwok, 

 they can and sometimes do butt severely, and 

 on that account are regarded by some farmers 

 as more dangerous in a herd than those cattle 

 which have more formidable looking horns, 

 andJNIr. Allen says <hat the safety .of him who 

 handles them lies more in their docility of tem- 

 per and good training than in their inability to 

 inflict injury. 



Mr. Youatt says that the milk of the Gallo- 

 way cows is rich in quality and yields a large 

 proportion of butter, but they are not good 

 milkers. 



The above illustration is copied from Mr. 

 Allen's American Cattle, and is an accurate 

 portrait of a beautiful young Galloway cow, 

 owned by a gentleman in Canada West. 



CoL. T. Fitch's Stock Farm. — The Norwich, 

 Ct., Bulletin gives an account of a visit to the farm 

 of Col. Thomas Fitch, of that city. It is about 

 three-fourths of a mile from the railroad depot, 

 and contains some 100 acres. The land was for- 

 merly covered with granite houlders, which have 

 been sunken or removed. He has barn room for 

 225 head of cattle and about a dozen horses and 

 colts. His herd of cattle consists of thirty thor- 

 oughbred Jerseys, thirty Ayrshires, with crosses. 

 Col. F. has been engaged in breeding for more than 

 twelve years. He has tried crossing Alderneys 

 with Devons, Short-horns, Ayrshires, Natives and 

 Madagascars, and has arrived at the conclusion 

 that the milk and butter qualities of all the differ- 

 ent breeds are improved by crossing with Alder- 

 ney males. Nearly all the half-blood Alderneys 



he has raised are better for dairy purposes than 

 Devons, but the cross of Alderneys and Ayrshires 

 are in his judgement the best cow, in all respects, 

 that he has ever seen or bred. They yield more 

 value in milk and butter, are fliibh milkers, good 

 size and form, and are easily kept. This cross, 

 makes fine working oxen. 



The swine family is also well represented there. 

 The famous Seftons, a breed that gets fat in pas- 

 ture, from the estate of Earl of Sefton, England, 

 the Chester County White, and the cross of the 

 two breeds, are there to be seen in all their native 

 hoggishness. 



Massachusetts Agricultural College. — The 

 Trustees have elected the following officers : — Pres- 

 ident — "William Claflin. Vice-President — Wm. S. 

 Clark. Secretary — Charles L. Flint. Treasurer — 

 Nathan Durfee. Auditor — D. Waldo Lincoln. Ex- 

 ecutive Committee — Wm. S. Clark of Amherst, 

 Henry Colt of Pittsfield, Wm. B. Washburn of 

 Greenfield, Nathan Durfee of Fall River, and 

 Phineas Stedman of Chicopee. 



The Executive Committee was authorized to em- 

 ploy Wm. 1). Davis of Warner, N. H., a grandson of 

 Hon. Levi Bartlett, as Superintendent of the Col- 

 lege Farm. Mr. Davis has, for the last three 

 years, held the position of Superintendent of the 

 Government Hospital Farm, at Washington. D. C. 



CABBAGES. 



A correspondent of the Germantown Tele- 

 graph, who raises cabbages far stock and who 

 prefers pasture land of a light, sandy texture 

 for this crop, gives the following as his process 

 of cultivation : — 



When I grow cabbages on pasture ground, 

 I break it up early in the spring, and having 

 rolled and harrowed thoroughly — I strike the 

 land off into furrows eighteen inches apart, 

 and apply the manure — one shovelful to the 

 hills, the hills being eighteen inches apart. 

 The manure is first leveled, then covered with 

 about one inch of fresh, fine soil, and on this 

 the seed is deposited, and covered about one 

 inch in depth. As soon as the plants appear, 

 they receive a dressing of soot, one part ; sul- 

 phur, one part ; gypsum, one part ; and wood 

 ashes, sifced, two parts ; the ingredients being 

 thorougly mixed, and applied by means of a 

 box with a perforated top. The morning is 

 the most suitable time for the application of 

 this dressing, as the dew serves to retain it on 

 the leaves, and prevents its being blown off by 

 the winds. When the plants are fairly in 

 rough leaf the hills may be thinned, and va- 

 cant ones filled up by transplanting from oth- 

 ers, and a dressing of slaked lime, one part; 

 wood ashes, four parts ; pulverized charcoal, 

 one part; gypsum, one part; anl common 

 salt, one part ; applied and worked in around 

 the roots. Frequent dressings with the boe 



