NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



Feb. 



milk, and 2 8-10 Ihs. of butter. How she was fed 

 docs not appear. | 



In 18-10, a i Ayrsliire cow of Wm. Eames, of: 

 Worcester, gave, taking the required trials of 

 June and Septeniher together, a daily average 

 yield of 1-i qts. milk, and 1 lb. 1-4 oz. butter ; this 

 was upon <rrass only. A cow of what we call 

 native breed, (l)ut undoubtedly of mixed blood,) 

 was exhibited in 1848, at the AN^orcester Show by 

 myself, which, for the 9 first days of June, gave an 

 average j-ield of 18^ qts. of milk, and of over 2 lbs. of 

 butter daily, and for the iirstO days of September, 

 a-n average of 13^ qts. of milk, and of 1 lb. lloz 

 butter per day. lier feed was a small supply of 

 corn fodder in addition to pasture. No meal or 

 ^orts was furnished her. 



In 1849, Jos. A. Keed, of Princeton, exhibited 

 a cow at our show, whose average daily yield for 

 20 days, the first 10 of June and of September, 

 was 12 7-10 qt«. of milk, and 1 lb. and 14 oz. of 

 Jjutter. This cow had no meal. 



In the opinion of the committee for that year, 

 tho best cow was exhibited Ity the late Hon. John 

 W. Lincoln, (now owned by me,) whose daily av- 

 erage, for the first 10 days of June, was over 15 

 qts. of milk and 2 lbs. 2 oz. butter, and for the first 

 10 days of September, of over 14 qts. of milk, and 

 a trifle more than 1 lb. 15 oz. of butter. This cow 

 was furnished nothing save what she gathered for 

 herself in the pasture. 



In 1850, a cow was exhibited by me, whose dai- 

 ly average for the first 9 days of June and Sep- 

 t(anbcr, being 18 days, was 1 "lb. 10 oz. butter. 



In 1851, Horace Cuenery, of Worcester, exhib- 

 ited a cow which during 10 days of June, and 10 

 of September, gave a daily average of 15 qts. of 

 milk, and 1 lb. 13 oz. butter. 



In 1853, 11. P. Reed, of Princeton, exhibited a 

 cow, whose daily yield for tho first 10 days_ of 

 June and September, averaged over 14 qts. milk, 

 and more than 1 lb. 13 oz. butter. 



None of these cows had meal furnished them. 

 What they would liave yielded liad they had, as 

 Mr. Reed's, "^/.'roj/i,'/* ihc winter 2 qts. of corn and 

 cob meal, 1 qt. of shorts and good hay per day, 

 in summer, good pjasturing with the addition of 

 srain (how much?) occasionally through the 

 arought in July and August, and 2" quarts of meal 

 TER DAY, xohtk we ware testing- the properties of her 

 milk/or but ter, '' o^ comsa can only be conjectured. 

 I might extend this comparison much farther, by 

 going into other counties of the State. But enough 

 has been done, I think, to s;itisfy the doubts of 

 my friend. 



After air, no one would more highly prize an 

 Aldcrney than myself, and, if their price were 

 within the means of an cvcry-day working farmer 

 like myself, no one v/ould sooner purchase them. 

 I should like to see an account of the yield of 

 one running with a herd of cows, and kept, not as 

 our farmers arc too apt to keep their stock, half 

 weighed down by the manure wdiich clings to their 

 aides, but kept as all animals should bo, cleanund 

 warm, and fed on good luiy and roots througli the 

 winter, and furnished Avith good pasturage onli/ 

 througli the summer. A comparison between an 

 Aldcrney, and one of any other breed of cows, 

 would then be of some value. 



Yours, W. S. LI^'C0LN, 



Worcester, Jan. 4, 1854, 



Remarks. — We are exceadingly obliged to friend 

 Lincoln for the above "string of facts" in rela- 

 tion to the Worcester cows. Such facts are encour- 

 aging to us who cannot afford to j^ay the high prices 

 which are demanded for foreign stock, and will in- 

 duce us to pay more attention to such as is produced 

 within ourselves. These rej^resentations, made as 

 they are by gentlemen of close observation and un- 

 doubted integrity, in diflferent parts of the State, 

 will produce the results so long desired, viz. — bet- 

 ter care of our native stock, and a better knowl- 

 edge of the comparative merits of the various 

 breeds among us. 



FARMING, AND OUR NEW GOVERNOR. 



We have attentively read tlie Message of our 

 new Governor to the Legislature, and find that, 

 while all the other interests of the Commonwealth 

 have been considered, Agriculture, which is th« 

 basis of them all, is not noticed. Well, as faith- 

 ful chroniclers, we will endeavor to show the peo- 

 ple that the Governor is right — that the capital 

 invested in Agriculture in the State is so insig- 

 nificant as not to be worth mentioning in a grave 

 state paper in which the interests of the people 

 are discussed ; we will give the facts and figures, 

 at any rate, and then let the farmer, who is con- 

 sidered competent to look after his own interests, 

 while tho merchant and manufacturer need the 

 fostering care of the government, — we will let the 

 farmer, wo repeat, judge for himself. 



In the year 1850, the improved land of the State 

 amounted to 2,133,436 acres, and the cash value of 

 the farms was $100,076,347; the farm imple- 

 ments and machinery were worth §3,209,584; the 

 value of the live stock was $9,649,710 ; and the 

 value of the wheat, rye and Indian corn of that 

 year, was $2,857,732, to say nothing of the hay, 

 fruit and root crops, which would be as much 

 more. These sums find the farmer investing cap- 

 ital and producing crops in a single year to tha 

 amount of one hundred and twenty-seven millions, 

 six hundred and fifty-one thousand, one hun- 

 dred and five dollars ! Rut then this interest 

 is too small to be brouglit before tho assembled 

 wisdom of the Commonwealth ; or it may be con- 

 sidered dangerous, and likely to override, and 

 crush all the other industrial pursuits. 



The other principal industrial pursuits gave for 

 the same period, in capital invested and goods pro- 

 duced in the cotton and woollen manufacture, in 

 pig iron, castings, wrought iron, malt and spirit- 

 uous liquors, and tanneries, an aggregate oi eighty 

 millions, three hundred thousand, nine hundred and 

 fifty-four dollars — leaving a l)alance oi forty-seven 

 millions, three hundred and fifty thousand, one hun- 

 dred and fifty-one dollars, in favor of the industry 

 of the farmer. Wo do not intend, now, to go 

 into an exact statement of the comparative value 

 and importance of the pursuits of our people-^ 



