1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FAMIER. 



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machinery, will in a few years give to this 

 college farm a far more favorable and hope- 

 ful "look," and perhaps demonstrate the pos- 

 sibility that the section in which it is located 

 is capable of a high rank as an agricultural 

 district. 



Our visitor thinks a cheaper structure might 

 have ansv/ered for a dormitory, and remarks 

 that "when window glass is used that cost two 

 dollars per light, and doors that cost twenty 

 dollars each, we should question whether 

 somevv'hat cheaper glass, and good, but less 

 expensive doors, would not be far better, pro- 

 vided by the means a little money could be 

 saved for additional buildings, scientific ap- 

 paratus, or other necessary equipments of the 

 college." 



In deciding to open the college, "with- 

 out a President, without a library, with- 

 out a laboratory, with but a limited appara- 

 tus, and with only a Professor of Mathematics 

 and a Farm Superintendent," the Board of 

 Trustees, he says, are acting on a "judgment 

 that is certainly different from our own, and 

 while we wish it the most complete success, 

 we earnestly hope the result will not be such 

 as to bring disappointment." 



In relation to the crops and stock now on 

 farm, which have been managed for the two 

 years past by Hon. John H. Gilman, the edi- 

 tor of the Farmer says : 



The present season the farm has cut ninety tons 

 of hay, the yield averaging about one ton to the 

 acre. Haying was commenced the 5th of July. 

 The hay, witii the exception of three tons of mead- 

 ow hay, is of superior quality, chiefly herdsgrass 

 and redtop, and is iii excellent condition. The 

 experiment was tried of putting in one mow im- 

 mediately after it was cut, with no making and no 

 foreign moisture in the grass. It was cut the 18th 

 of July, about 11 o'clock A. M., and hauled into 

 the barn about 2 o'clock P. M. Four tons were 

 put into a mow by itself, and upon the top, old 

 straw to the depth of a foot or more was pitched 

 on. The result is a complete loss. The other 

 crops upon the farm are seven acres of potatoes, 

 seven acres of barley and three and a half acres of 

 buckwheat. No corn is i-aised, from the fact that 

 four bushels of potatoes can be raised easier than 

 one of corn. Eight acres of land are being sum- 

 mer tilled, upon live of which grass was ploughed 

 under early in the summer, and buckwheat sowed 

 and ploughed under upon the other three. To the 

 south of the White farm house, is a small fruit 

 garden in which thirty to fifty apple trees, of 

 rather small size and of somewhat stunted appear- 

 ance, which led us to the belief that the soil is not 

 a favorable one for fruit trees. This appearance 

 of the trues, however, we were informed was due 

 in a measure to neglect, and we were also In- 

 formt'd that in some places in the vicinity, good 

 ori^hards of tine healthy trees, where they had 

 been properly cared for, were to be found.* In the 

 fall of ISGG four hundred pear trees were set out in 

 the nursery, and of these certainly not more than 



one-half are now living. Some four thousand 

 young apple trees are looking very well. 



The stock upon the farm consists of six head of 

 full blood Durham stock, ^s follows : one bull, 

 two cows, one one-year-old heifer and two calves ; 

 together with seventeen head of grade cattle, five 

 horses, sixty sheep and lambs, and four swine. 



THE JAMESTOWN" BREED OP CAT- 

 TLE. 



Will you or some of your correspondents in- 

 form me through the New England Farmer, 

 what breed you would call a cow that resembles 

 the picture of the Dutch cow in the last Farmer, 

 in color and shape, but has no horns. I am in- 

 formed her grandmother was imported from Ire- 

 land in the Jamestown. I have a very likely male 

 calf from this cow, which is now more than two 

 months old, and he too will be hornless, and I 

 would like to know what breed to call him. Veg- 

 etation has advanced more rapidly for two montha 

 past than I ever recollect observing. 



Thomas_ Haskell. 



W. Gloiccester, Mass., Aug. 6, 1868.' 



Remarks. — On reading this inquiry, we re- 

 membered of having seen, and we thought of 

 having published, some account of the James- 

 town cow, not long since, but for some time 

 we were unable to lay our hands upon the 

 documents, without which we did not like to 

 trust to our memory for a reply. After con- 

 siderable inquiry and hunting, we find in the 

 abstract of the County Reports in the Agri- 

 culture of Massachusetts, a detailed statement 

 of her history, written by our correspondent, 

 A. W. Cheever, Esq., Sheldonville, Norfolk 

 County, Mass. 



It will be remembered that in 1847, the 

 United States ship, Jamestown, Capt. R, B. 

 Forbes, commander, carried a cargo of pro- 

 visions from this country to the starving 

 people of Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant of 

 that country, wishing to confer some token of 

 his gratitude, made a present of a fine Suf- 

 folk heifer to Capt. Forbes, which proved to 

 be a deep milker, giving in her flow twenty- 

 six quarts beer measure of the richest milk. 

 Capt. Forbes sold the cow on his arrival here 

 and gave the proceeds to the Irish Charity 

 Fund. John Marland of Andover, Mass., 

 was the purchaser. From him she passed 

 into the hands of J. D. Bates, of Swampscofr, 

 and afterwards into the hands of Mr. Osbom 

 of Danvers, Mass. 



Mr. Sanford Howard, who saw this cow 

 and who had also seen the Suffolks in England, 

 says that she closely resembled the Suf- 

 folk, an English breed without horns. He* 

 also says that the Suffolks are different in 



