304 THE CULTIVATOR. Oct. 
MOUNT FOHDIIAM, THE RESIDENCE OF LEWIS G. MORRIS, ESQ. 
Visit to Mount Fordham. 
A recent visit to the fine country residence and 
grazing farm of Lewis G. Morris, Esq., the Presi¬ 
dent of our State Agricultural Society, afforded us the 
high gratification of seeing not only the herds of beau¬ 
tiful and high bred animals, for which this place has 
become so celebrated, but the many conveniences and 
elegancies which are connected with the homestead. It 
is situated about ten miles north of Hew-York city, on 
a high ridge of land, sloping with undulations towards 
the Harlem railway about a mile on the east, and de¬ 
scending abrubtly at the west to the Harlem river, 
which at this place is nearly half a mile wide, and lies 
about a hundred and fifty feet below, in a valley with 
steep and wooded sides. The smooth and polished ar¬ 
tificial landscape immediately about the mansion, in 
contrast with the huge masses of rocks which' on 
more remote parts of the farm occasionally line the 
slopes, combine in rendering this spot one of great 
picturesque beauty. 
It is very rare that, so large a number and so great 
a variety of high bred animals are to be found on a 
single farm. The Durham and Devon cattle, the 
Southdown sheep, and the Suffolk, Essex, and Berk¬ 
shire swine, were of the highest character. That our 
readers may be able to form an estimate on this sub¬ 
ject, we will state briefly their number and origin. Of 
Seventy-five pure bred cattle, about fifty are Durhams 
or short-horns, and twenty-five Devons. There are 
three imported short-horn bulls—Balco, a four-year 
red bull, bred by the celebrated Thomas Bates, desig¬ 
nated in the British Herd- Book as Ho. 9,918 ; Borneo, 
a roan bull, bred by the Marquis,of Exeter; and Mar- 
ws quis of Carabus, a two-year bull, bred by F. II. Hawkes 
(& of Farnley Hall, Yorkshire. There are also ten import- 
fM ed short-horn cows, selected from the herds of Thomas 
Bates; J. S. Tanqueray of Brent Lodge, Middlesex; 
H. H. Hill, Berrington, Shrewsbury; Harvey Combe, 
Cobham Park, Surrey; J. Emerson, Eryholme; and 
-Fowle, Horth Allerton. We mention these differ¬ 
ent sources to show the eminent advantage possessed in 
this respect, of crossing without too close a breeding 
in-and-in. The last importation of short-horns belong 
jointly to L. G. Morris and H. J. Becar of Smithtown, 
L. I. There are of imported Devons, one bull and four 
cows. There are about forty beautiful Southdown 
sheep, the whole being obtained or bred from the flock 
of the celebrated Jonas. Webb, of which about twenty 
are imported, and the residue raised from them. A 
Southdown ram, of extraordinary excellence and super¬ 
lative beauty, was obtained there the present season, 
before the annual letting, and was selected as the best 
one in the flock. 
The excellence of the Suffolk (or Windsor) breed of 
swine, and the probability of their becoming general 
favorites, led us to regard the fine specimens on this 
place with great interest. We found about 25 beautiful 
animals, and learned that they had been procured from 
three distinct sources, namely, from Earl Ducie, Lord 
Badnor, and-Crisp, of Suffolk; thus securing ail 
the advantages of crossing possessed in case of the short¬ 
horn cattle. In addition to these, there were eleven 
specimens of pure blood Berkshire?, (five imported) 
consisting of two distinct families, and twenty-five ani¬ 
mals of the Essex breed, imported and raised from the 
celebrated stock of Fisher Hobbs. 
The principal farmery, consisting of the barn, stables,, 
sheds, and piggery, was handsomely built, and kept in 
neat order. The cast iron pig-troughs were a great 
improvement in the common mode of construction of 
wood ; they are indestructible by decay or the teeth of 
swine, easily kept clean, very portable, and always 
