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of milk a day could be had by the year. He is determined to 

 follow the experiment till he can know, with a good degree of 

 certainty, what are its advantages. "We may add that the 

 French, who were probably the first to try this operation on 

 cows in milk, claim that — " The yield of milk is not only supe- 

 rior with spayed cows, and not only is the fattening of these 

 animals quicker, more easy and complete, but the milk will 

 return a third more in butter and cheese, and the flesh is more 

 succulent, tender, and more thoroughly penetrated with fat." 



Mr. Andrews purchased last Spring the superior Ayrshire bull 

 Albert, imported from Scotland in 1858, by the Massachusetts 

 Society for Promoting Agriculture. His object is to rear some 

 heifers produced by some of his best cows and this bull. Several 

 of the cows from which he intends to breed, are very good, both 

 as to size, shape, and actual produce of milk — some of them 

 gave from fifty to sixty pounds of milk a day during the months 

 of April and May last. It is hardly to be doubted that valuable 

 dairy stock may be obtained from the proposed cross. 



Hazen & Whittier, on a portion of what was the Keith farm. 

 West Roxbury, showed us a very handsome field of corn, as 

 also did James Hunt, on another part of the same farm. 



George G. North, West Roxbury, owns the Jersey bull 

 Marmion, which has taken the first prize of this society. Mr. 

 North carries on farming successfully, but we had not the op- 

 portunity to examine his crops, which were at some distance 

 from his residence. 



T. G. Why tal, West Roxbury, has extensive green-houses and 

 graperies, the surrounding ground being devoted to the cultiva- 

 tion of fruits and flowers. A walk through the establishment 

 showed us that it was well kcjjt, and that the fruits and plants 

 indicated the hand of skilful culture. 



Jeremiah Pritchard, West Roxbury, has one of the first grape- 

 houses, on the " cold " plan, that was ever built in this country. 

 From the hasty glance we took at it, the fruit appeared to be 

 abundant and o f fine quality. Mr. Pritchard has been a suc- 

 cessful competitor at the shows of this society, for the premiums 



