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Legislature, to have the present Dog Law carried into force, or 

 to procure another, more stringent, to be passed ; for tliej must 

 all be aware that the number of useless curs far exceeds the num- 

 ber of sheep in this county. 



My breed of swine is a cross between the Suffolk sow and Essex 

 boar, — which I consider the best, for all purposes, I have ever 

 raised. 



I winter, in addition to the above, on an average, about twenty 

 horses, which are fed on hay and carrots. 



My manure is mostly kept in barn cellars ; is thrown over fre- 

 quently and loam is mixed with it. Large heaps are closely 

 packed up, during the Autumn and Winter, on the fields where 

 it is to be used in the following Spring, and kept covered Avith 

 earth, to prevent the escape of gases and to protect it from the 

 rain. 



The grass fields are renewed evei-y seven or eight years, and 

 then kept under the plough three years. 1st year Winter rye, 

 without manure ; 2d year corn, with 10 cords manure as it comes 

 from the cellars, per acre ; 3d year roots, with about G cords ma- 

 nure ; then seeded down, generally in the Spring, with one bushel 

 herdsgrass and two bushels redtop per acre, well harrowed and 

 rolled with a heavy stone roller, — picking off the stones clean, and 

 making it as smooth as possible for the mowing machine. 



My milch cows are fed on rowen, as long as I have it, with one 

 peck of carrots per day ; then good hay and same quantity of 

 roots. If my roots give out, I then give G quarts shorts per day, 

 — rarely any meal. I milk them, if possible, up to about thirty 

 days of their calving. 



I grind np all my corn, on the cob, with one of the " Little Gi- 

 ant" corn crushers. A man and pair of horses will grind, easily, 

 fifteen bushels per hour ; and this can be done in stormy weather, 

 when it is impossible to work out of doors. 



Thomas Motley, Ju. 



Woodland Hill, Dec. 10, 1858. 



