STATEMENTS 



Of Exhibitors at the Nineteenth Annual Fair, 1846. 



IMPROVED STOCK. 



Paterson, JY. J., Mov. 20th, 1846. 



Dear Sir: — My manner of raising improved stock is as follows: 

 I first purchase the pure breed, at a cost of one hundred dollars 

 for a bull calf of four months, and one hundred dollars for a cow 

 with calf, that is for my pure Devons; I feed them as much as they 

 will eat, generally soiled fed. 



I only let my calves suck their mothers for three days: I then 

 wean them and bring them up by hand; if weaned thus early there 

 is no difficulty in learning them to drink. I then boil skim milk, add 

 some Indian meal, and about a wine glass of molasses per day to this 

 drink, on which they thrive famously. It is too expensive to raise 

 calves on new milk. When a month old, if in the spring, I cut for 

 them clover, lucerne, rye grass, or rye, (say rye first); by way of 

 change, I occasionally mix some oil cake, or flax seed, instead of 

 Indian moal, with the boiled milk; in the fall of the year I give the 

 calves roots, cut hay and meal, after a month or six weeks. They 

 have a grass plot of about an acre to run in, where there is abun- 

 dance of water; in this way I raise my calves at small expense. 

 Profit, there is none. The bull I gave $100 for, I have offered to 

 sell at $50; a bull calf that took the last premium, at §50, and have 

 given away four pure bull calves. 



• I may sdy the same of the Alderneys. I have not been able to 

 sell a bull calf, have given away five. As to Ayrshires, one of my 

 cows cost the importer sixty guineas. I will sell her for fifty dol- 

 lars. My imported bull cost me upwards of three hundred dollars, I 

 will sell him next June for one hundred and fifty dollars. My fine 

 boll calf from my imported Ayrshire cow, (the same stood me in two 



