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and 10 of muck, that had been dug 12 months, crop not heavy, but 

 perfectly sound, and fine flavored. I put them in barrels and filled 

 in charcoal dust, and they are now as fine dry and mealy, as they 

 were in November, and 1 have put in my whole crop this year with 

 the same mixture. Perhaps the best way is to spread 10 bushels of 

 salt and 40 of slacked lime broad-cast, to the acre, and then apply 

 the wood ashes, say 10 bushels and 50 of dry muck, and 1 of gua- 

 no, well mixed in the hills or drills. Let any one try this on an 

 acre, and if he does not get 300 bushels or more of sound potatoes, 

 I shall be greatly mistaken. 



Your most humble servant, 



R. L. COLT. 



Dear Sir — You ask me about my opinion of dairy cows, to which 

 I answer— do you want to inquire about milk to sell, if so, take 

 Dutch or Holderness cows, that give you 20 or 30 quarts of milk for 

 300 days in the year, but if you want milk for yourself, take Alder- 

 neys, which give you 8 or 10 quarts a day of milk, richer than the 

 cream you are in the habit of buying in New-York For general 

 purposes, I am inclined to think, that Alderneys, this side of the 

 Alleghany Mountains, (except on some of our very rich valley 

 lands,) is the best kind of stock for the farmer to keep, next to this 

 Devons, pure North Devons, they are good for milk, good for beef, 

 and the best of all working cattle, but for gentlemen give me Al- 

 derneys, one wants quality, not quantity. I tried short horns, but 

 our Jersey lands would not support them, without too much expendi- 

 ture, beyond orpass and hay for grain, and I now confine myself to 

 Alderneys for myself, to Devons and to Ayrshires, of which I have 

 the pure blood, and which I mean to keep pure. I mean to raise 

 enough pure Alderneys to supply New-York city with 100 or 200 

 cows a year, at $36 a year, guaranteeing to give a fresh Alderney 

 whenever the one on hand does not give 6 quarts a day, recollect 

 then 6 quarts are not 6 quarts of milk, but really 6 quarts of cream; 

 instead of 6 I think I will be willing to guarantee 7 a day; now 

 any one that wants a cow had better give me $40 a year for such a 

 one, than buy a common one for $30 or $40, and sell her again, 

 when dry, at $10. I have just desired Mr. Colman to purchase for 

 me, the best pure bull and cow of the Alderney breed, he can pro- 

 cure in the Lsland of Jersey, where the best come from. 



At present I have the purest and largest breed of Alderneys in 

 this country. 



