26 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The nuiuber of head of neat cattle now on the 



farm is 41, mventoried at -$3,040 00 



Nine have 'been sold within the year, for . . 427 00 



(One cow lost by death and three bred,) 



13,467 00 



Making the value of the stock now on the farm, and that sold 

 and bred within the year, $3,467, or within three dollars of the 

 value of that on the farm at the commencement and purchased 

 within the year. 



The blood cattle on the farm now number fifteen. Five 

 Herefords, four Devons, three Durhams, two Jerseys and one 

 Ayrshire. Four are males and eleven are females ; seven 

 were purchased at a cost of $735, seven have been bred on the 

 farm, and are now worth more than the cost of the seven pur- 

 chased. One, a Jersey cow', Avas a valuable gift to the Board 

 from the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agricul- 

 ture. These cattle are of the very best blood, and the com- 

 mittee have inventoried them at 1 1,440. They can doubtless 

 be sold for this sum, and probably more. 



There are five horses on the farm. Two were there previous 

 to 1854, one was purchased in 1855, one in 1856, and one in 

 1857. Last year the five were inventoried at $680 ; this year 

 their value in the inventory has been reduced to $500. 



About a year ago one of the horses, in consequence of a bad 

 cold, had a violent inflammation in his forward feet, accompa- 

 nied by high fever, which caused a casting off of the hoof; he 

 was turned to pasture the last summer. New hoofs are now 

 grown, so as to permit his being shod and performing his usual 

 labors on the farm. Four of the horses are old and are begin- 

 ning to fail, and in a few years must be replaced by others. 



The two acres of land on the plain, where millet was raised 

 and cut for hay, were manured with four cords to the acre, of 

 reservoir manure, ploughed in, and on the 3d day of September, 

 were seeded with three bushels of winter rye. 



Six acres on the Sibley lot, where Indian corn was raised, 

 were ploughed and seeded on the 2d and 3d days of October, 

 with seven bushels of winter rye, manured with fifty pounds of 

 guano the acre, which was harrowed in with the rye. 



There is also on the Sibley lot, six and one-half acres of 

 land, where potatoes were cultivated the present year, which 

 were ploughed on the 7tli and 8th, and seeded with nine bushels 

 of winter rye on the 9tli of October, Avithout manure of any 

 kind. 



One-half acre of land near the steam mill, was manured 

 with one hundred pounds of guano, and seeded with one bushel 

 of winter rye, on the 3d of September ; the rye was harrowed 



