78 AGRICULTURAL PUBLICATIONS IN U. S. 



made, which will give 4 lbs. 2 oz. butter in one day, from 

 one cow — the butter was of a superior quality, and brought 



a high price in this market— [Northampton courier, June 1830. 



31. A cow owned in New-London, Conn., yielded 10 quarts 

 milk per day, for 14 successive months. 



For the 30th example I have only the authority quoted, 

 which I have no reason to doubt. Most of the others have 

 been authenticated under oath ; and most of the cows and the 

 owners I have seen. 



I have already extended this communication to an inordinate 

 length. 1 shall leave it, for the present, without farther com- 

 ment, and only add, in behalf of myself and the whole agricul- 

 tural public, that the respected and liberal gentlemen, owners of 

 the improved Durham stock, will confer a great obligation, and 

 add to their patriotic services, if they will favor the public with 

 as exact and full statements, from their own actual experiments, 

 of the dairy produce of their beautiful and valuable animals. 



H. C. 



MeadowhanJcs, 8th Feb. 1835. 



A CATALOGUE OF AGRICULTURAL PUBLICA- 

 TIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. 



The first agricultural work published in the country was 

 " Essays on Field Husbandry," by Jared Eliot, minister of Kil- 

 lingworth, Connecticut. The preface is dated 1747. It was 

 published in Boston in 1760. A second edition was published 

 in the papers of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, in 

 1811. It is a sensible, practical, and valuable work. 



The next publications are those of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Society, which was incorporated in 1792. Their first 

 publication was issued in 1793, and was entitled " Laws and 

 Regulations of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, with 

 some interesting Extracts from foreign and domestic Publications. 



