that breeding swine can be kept upon raw mangolds- 

 alone from October to May, in good thrifty condition. 

 Can any one doubt, with such foots, the great advantage 

 of growing this and other root crops ? 



Various breeds of Foreign Cattle have also been thor- 

 oughly tested ; and in my opinion the Ayrshire stock 

 has proved the best adapted to our pastures, and for 

 milking qualities, heads the list. Doubtless there are 

 some specimens among our native stock as good as the 

 best of any foreign breed for milk, but the native breed 

 cannot be so generally relied upon ; therefore the thanks 

 of the farmers of Essex are due to the Massachusetts- 

 Society for the promotion of Agriculture, and to some 

 private individuals for the introduction of that superior 

 breed of cattle. 



I think any close observer of the cattle pens at our 

 exhibitions for the last tAventy years will have noticed 

 this fact : that any breed, of whatever size, will, within 

 two or three generations become adapted in size and 

 form to the locality and pastures in which it is placed^, 

 although retaining more or less of its own peculiar 

 marks and qualities ; hence the economy of introducing^ 

 such breeds as correspond prett}^ nearly in size with our 

 native cattle. 



Although tAvo years in succession of severe drought., 

 which occurred four or five years ago, so weakened the 

 fruit buds of the apple trees as nearly to destroy the 

 crop of fruit, and the canker worm, with other insects. 

 has since committed such ravages upon our orchards as 

 to make the cultivation of the apple rather discourag- 

 iiT^g — yet, let us take heart. By the use of printers' ink 

 and tarred paper, from November 1st to April 1st, at a, 

 cost of from five to eight cents per tree, our orchards can 



