48 [Assembly 



During the last winter, Mr. Bathgate and his son, kept and 

 wintered on this farm 90 cows. The milk of these cows in sum- 

 mer and winter is sold at the New-York market. No butter or 

 cheese except what is used by Mr. Bathgate's family is made on 

 this farm. The stock is graded and mixed from the Native, 

 Durham, and Ayrshire races. Some of the milk from Mr. B's 

 farm is sold as high as six cents a quart ; his stock are many of 

 them large and extraordinary milkers, he sold one of his fine 

 cows at the Fair of the American Institute, 1850, for $130. 



The present season Mr. B. keeps 60 milch cows, 5 horses, 1 

 pair of oxen, 4 heifers. The cows yield 400 quarts of milk a day, 

 which is sold in New- York, averaging five cents a quart. Mr. 

 B. states that he has sold fruit from his orchard on the farm to 

 the amount of $600 the present season, and estimates that he will 

 sell $500 worth of hay the coming winter. 



The manure which Mr. B. makes on his farm is about 500 cart 

 loads, and is used for the growth of vegetables, and for top dress-, 

 ings of his meadow lands. There is about fifty acres of meadow 

 land on this farm, producing, as he states, 150 tons of hay a sea- 

 son, an apple orchard of ten acres, and a peach orchard of six 

 acres. Mr. B. first planted his peach orchard with early pota- 

 toes, which are dug for the New-York market, and then raised 

 turnips on the same, producing two crops a season. He estimates 

 his turnip crop 1,000 bushels. The peach orchard contains 600 

 to 700 trees. At the time your committee visited the farm of 

 Mr. B., the country was suffering from a long and severe drought, 

 which gave the same a dry and unpropitious appearance ; that 

 on passing over a large portion of this farm and seeing it, your 

 committee were well pleased with the fertility and productive- 

 ness of the same. Mr. B. and his son kindly pointed out the 

 stock and showed some of their best milkers, which were a cross 

 of the native Ayrshire and Durham races. One extraordinary 

 cow which they showed was a cross from the recent Dutch im- 

 ported stock and the native. Indeed, as far as your committee 

 have been able to judge, they have come to the conclusion that 

 foreign stock, when crossed on the native cow, produces an off- 

 spring far superior for milk and fattening, to eitlier of the ori- 

 ginals. 



