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breed of dairy cows as could be imported at ten times 

 their expense from abroad. In this way, the Ayreshires 

 have been made, that have become second now only 

 to the Durhams. Conld the attention of stock breeders 

 be better employed than turning to this? It really 

 seems to me the only way that our country can ever 

 be filled up with good milking and fattening animals. 

 A few years of such breeding would assuredly do more 

 for us than a century of importations." 



[From tlie Genesee Farmer.] 



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Mr. Editor, — As it is a time light is expanding, and 

 farmers are becoming more free to communicate their 

 several stocks of knowledge and experience, and you 

 have interested yourself so much as to collect informa- 

 tion and arrange it in such a manner that it may be 

 compared to a great reservoir, public storehouse, to 

 which we can resort for almost any important informa- 

 tion which is necessary to our concerns, I cast in my 

 mite, which is relative to the choice of trees for culture. 

 This country is much lacking in durable timber for 

 fences, &c. yet the yellow locust and native mulberry 

 are easily propagated, and almost incorruptible to last 

 as fence posts, having been taken up for examination, 

 upon Long Island, after having been used as gate-posts, 

 and then were found to be sound enough, to all appear- 

 ance, to last fifty years more. My informant I think 

 told me the truth, as I suppose he is a man to be be- 

 lieved. Mr. Samuel Wiman, in this town, informed 

 me, about two months since, he had a native mulberry 

 bar-post which had stood thirty years ; that it was still 

 strong in the ground ; the holes for the bars to run in 

 wore out, which spoiled it. The yellow locust and native 



