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the black is a fine crower. I have sent for others, male and female, 

 which 1 will send you when I receive them. The (wo now sent, 

 Capt. Williams of the Margaretta, will deliver. 



" W. H. D. C. Wright." 



AN IMPORTED COW. 



The ship Alexander has just brought for Col. Powell, of Phila- 

 delphia, an extraordinary improved Durham short-horned Cow, 

 which produced in England, as appears by certificate, thirty quarts 

 of milk per day in June last, and affords from the milk of seven 

 days, 19 1-2 lbs. averdupois, of Butter, and had continued to give 

 milk until the birth of her calf. Col. Powell has done more 

 for the improvement of Neat Stock in the United States, than any 

 man living. If we had a few more such men in different parts of 

 the Union, we should soon rival (Jld England in the good qualities 

 of our cattle. 



LITHOGRAPHY. 



There are now, two establishments of this beautiful art in Bos- 

 ton, viz: that of Pendleton's, and the Sennefelder Press, owned 

 by Messrs. Annin & Smith, the well known Engravers. Speci- 

 mens from both Presses, may be found among our Plates. Three 

 years ago, and it would have been almost an impossibility, to get a 

 Plate executed in Lithography, this side of the Atlantic. Much 

 credit is due the proprietors of these Presses, for their enterprise, 

 in introducing such an able handmaid to ths Arts among us. 



The ease and facility with which plates, or drawings, are struck 

 ©ff, illustrating ideas in the different departments of knowledge, 

 which cannot be conveyed by words, renders this one of the most 

 useful of the Arts ; for, by multiplying the avenues to Science, 

 and making the steps less difficult, we increase the number of her 

 votaries, and diffuse more generally and equailv, the good resulting 

 from a knowledge of her principles. To the Farmer and the Natu- 

 ralist, this Art is particularly useful, as plants, animals, tS:c. can be 

 represented nearly as well, and vastly more cheap, than by en- 

 graving, — We hope to give you a specimen of the Art, as it regards 

 animals, in some of our future numbers. A fine specimen from 

 the Sennefelder Press, designed by Swett, may be seen at our 

 Publishers. 



