AND H O It T I C U L T U R A L II E G I S T E K . 



PDBLISHED BY JOSEPH BRECK * CO., NO. B9 NOUTH M.tUKST STUEliT, (Aoiiioultuuai Waeimobie.j-AI.II \ II I \.\.M, EDITOR. 



BOSTOiN, W KDNi:si)AV KVK.MNG. J.\NUAriV 11», \BVi. 



N. E. FARMER. 



Korihe N. E. Kiriner. 



AYRSHIRE STOCK. 



In EuiTOB — I have lately rend in the Boston 



tivalor, of Doc. 4th, a few answers by the cdi- 



to the questions of a correspondent about Ayr- 



stock, wherein he stales that "it has proved 



excellent in the short pastures of Scotland, 



wlirn removed to richer pastures it has run to 



ind has not sustained the high dairy character 



:h It has in Scotland." Would not this, there- 



, prove a very excellent stock for New Eng- 



, where it will be allowed the pastures arc 



3rally short ; i^.vcept in the mowing fields, and 



ilhcr thi'ae ■!« Ids or the pastures happened to 



)0 rich, the remedy would be easy ; just put on 



; stock ; and if its susceptibility of running to 



n rich, and its high dairy character on poor 



ure is so great, would it not answer two of the 



important purposes that we require stock for, 



milk and beef? For fine symmetry of form 



beauty of color, it is not surpassed if equalled 



ny other breed. I think the editor has been 



nto some mistake about rich pasture injuring 



igh dairy ciiaracter, or if it does, it can only 



) a small extent, as the following statement 



show. Mr Harley, in his work on the dairy, 



ms us on page 2(5^, that Mr .Mton set down 



uarls of milk per day as a reasonable estimate 



e avcmgc produce of each of the 2000 cows 



in the city of Glasgow, they being generally 



e improved Ayrshire breed, and higlily kept. 



doctriRe of rich pasture injuring its high dairy 



icter, would be news to the people of Britain, 



■e rich pasture is highly appreciated for dairy 



OSes. The editor of the Cultivator farther 



3 that "this stock is neither common or sought 



real Britain, the Devone being better adapted 



e light lands of England." Now I think the 



ir has been led into another error in two of 



5 statenienls at least, viz: its neither being 



nmoa or sought," for it is stated on the above 



ed page of Mr Harlcy's book, that " for 20 



9 u-liote cdonies <>f the improved breed have 



carried to every county in Scotland, and to 



counties of England." What the editor 



^a by light lands, 1 cannot say, but if Ik; means 



light or short pasturage is produced from such 



, then however well the Devons may be adapt- 



3 such land, according to his own eliowing the 



shires certainly are. Mr Harley, who is of the 



est authority on this subject, informs us, on 



> 104, that he "had cows, by way of experi- 



t, from dili'ereni parts of the United Kingdom, 



urcliased ten at one Edinburgh market, of the 



c shorthorn breed, at £20 each, but they did 



give more milk nor of better quality than .Ayr- 



1 cows that were bought at the same period for 



a head, and on comparison it was found that 



latter were much cheaper kept, and that they 



oved fvlly more in beef and fat than the high 



id cows, a decided preference was therefore 



given to llie improved Ayrshire breed." He stales 

 on page 100, tJial ho had one cow which for a con- 

 siderable time, gave 40 <|uarts per day, had a num- 

 ber of very fine cows which produced from 'i^i to 

 30 quarts per day. On page 10t> ho further states, 

 " Another pood quality of the improved Ayrshire 

 breed is, that nUer they have yielded a large quan- 

 tity of milk, they fatten well, make excellent mixed 

 beef, and yield a considerable quantity of tallow: 

 this is easily accounted for, as in general ihoy feed 

 freely, have capacious stoiiuichs, and when dry, the 

 food which produced the large supply of milk, is 

 converli'd into fat and flesh ; this fact should in- 

 duce every dairy husbandman, whether on a largo 

 or small scale, to be careful in the selection of his 

 cows." And it would appear from llio result of 

 tlio Bridgewater Cattle Show, that Mr Hiirley was 

 borne out in his opinion, the preference there being 

 given to the Ayrshires — .Mr Randall's stock car- 

 rying off three of the highest premiums given, viz: 

 on bulls, cows, and heifers, the Durhains coming in 

 only second best. In the report of llie agricultural 

 meeting held in Boston, January lOlli, 1840, Mr 

 Webs;er, after speaking favorably of the Devons, 

 says that he "thought quite well also of the Ayr- 

 shires: they were good milkers, and being a hardy 

 race, were on that account well suited to the cold 

 climate, and to the coarse, and sometimes scanty 

 pasturage of New England." 



Respectfully, yours, 



ALEXANDER BICKETT. 

 Lowell, Jan. 6, 1842. 



SALE OF CREAM POT STOCK. 



On Tuesday, llth inst. was sold the stock which 

 Col. Jaques has for several years been engaged in 

 raising. Much has been said of these aniiunls — 

 but the public estimation in which they are held, is 

 less, if the price obtained for the animals is a fair 

 index of public opinion, than we have been accus- 

 tomed to suppose. 



We subjoin a list of the names of the animals 

 sold, with the age or nearly the age of each ; the 

 price, and the number of the animal on the Cata- 

 logue (published in our paper of 22d December 

 last.) 



The ten bulls averaged a little less than $20 

 each; the eight heifers, $\0; the twentyfivc cows, 

 quite near $50 each. Fortythree (throe calves not 

 counted,) brought .S10'J8, or about !?30 1-2 each. 



We should give the names of the purchasers, 

 were it not that some of them have expressed a de- 

 sire that we should withhold them. 



Bolls. 

 Ab. on Catalogue. Name. 



13. Clyto, 



7. Medium, 

 IR. Globe, 



5. Orange, 



8. Curvet, 



3. Don, 

 10. Count, 

 12. Silver, 



4. Leo, 

 Brilliant, 



For (he N. E. Farmer. 



CORN CULTIVATED WITHOUT HILLING. 

 Mr Editor — I last summer cultivated a piece 

 of corn without hilling, so often advised in your 

 columns, and shall never hill any more. There is 

 not only j great saving of labor, but the land is 

 left in much belter condition for the plow at har- 

 vesting ; grain, &c. are more easily sown among 

 it, and also harvested with greater facility. It is 

 sometimes prostrated, but it recovers itself, and 

 hilling is no preventive of this misfortune. 

 Yours, respectfully, 



A BroiMTm. 



The above communication contains nothing from 

 which we can oven conjecture who is the writer. 

 Nameless articles, though often good, and often 

 such as we are willing to insert in consequence of 

 their own merits — these nameless articles carry 

 with them much less vreight than such as have the 

 writer's name annexed. — Ed. N. E. F. 



