eats clean. During the winter, she was fed on hay, bran and grain, mixed as before stated, and five or six times a day, giving her food while milking.-The manger kept clean, and food never permitted to sour: and particular care taken to milk regularly and clean. Her udder was washed at milking times, with cold water, winter and summer. She was dry only 17 days. The cow was bred in Sussex, from a cow of the same county.

The Agricultural Magazine of Dr. Dickson, No. 1, published July 1807, gives the following account of the second year's produce of milk and butter, of this extraordinary cow:

TABLE 1st.

TABLE 2d.

The Breeds and Crosses placed in Rotation according to the quantity of Food they eat.

REMARKS ON THE CROSS BREEDS.

THE Devon and Holderness crossed produce a valuable stock, (very much resembling the Hereford) of a large size, hardy, kind feeders, and the meat of an excellent quality.

The Devon and Long Horn Cross are not so large as the former, but very hardy, are kind feeders, and the meat of a good quality.

The Devon and Alderney crossed, produce a very valuable stock; they are of a moderate size, much improved in symmetry, hardy, have a great propensity to fatten at an early age, when upon indifferent food, and the meat very rich.

The land upon which the above experiments were made, is of a middling quality, a mixed soil, and well watered.

REMARKS.

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THE Editor is indebted for the above paper to an attentive correspondent near London. The Earl of Chesterfield has not been prominent among the amateurs at the Smithfield or Woburn cattle shows, but the above statement evinces his attention to the important subject of the dairy, and displays the judicious principles upon which he conducted the experiments. The determination of the question of the comparative excellence of the various milk breeds in England, or in any country, is highly interesting, and the trouble requisite to insure accuracy in the result, amid the numerous avocations of a farm, can only be duly estimated by those, who have a practical knowledge of the difficulties attending such experiments. The ascertaining the quantity of food eaten by each cow, during the time the experiments were carried on, was essential to the object in view, and in all such experiments, or of fattening, ought never to be omitted. It is to be regretted, that the Sussex or Suffolk polled breed of cows, which stand high as milkers in England, had not been permitted to compete with the others on the occasion. The result of the experiments prove the propriety of the selection of the Devon and Alderney breed, by the Cattle Society, in the premiums offered by them for imported milk breeds of cattle.

ON ENGLISH CATTLE.

THE following letters from Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Chandler are important, as coming from men of well known respectability, and scientific breeders, who have repeatedly gained prizes at the Smithfield and other cattle shows, for the fine stock they have raised or exhibited. They are answers to letters, written for the purpose of bringing to the point the question of the vaunted superiority of English cattle, for which the extravagant prices that are given, justly astonish the American farmer.

The breed of Mr. Nicholson must certainly be a great acquisition in any country, on account of their quick maturity, and the disposition to throw flesh and fat on the most valuable parts; and that American would deserve richly of his country, who would introduce it into the United States: but the candid statement of Mr. Chandler, and that of Mr. Knight, satisfy me, that the Hereford cattle, so much boasted of, are not so profitable as the common stock of our northern states, which, when fattened in our state, daily grace our market, and excite merited applause from the stranger.

Upper Darby, Delaware County, October 25, 1807. SIR,

IN the "Globe" of May 9, 1807, it is stated, that you have sold your fine bull, for which premiums had recently been obtained from the York and Otley Agricultural Societies, to Wm. Downing, Esq. for one hundred guineas.

To an American farmer, this sum appears highly extravagant, for although the grazier and dairy-man are as well paid for their beef and butter in this part of the United States, as in any country: yet I will venture to say, that your bull might have remained to the day of judgment, if here, without bringing one quarter of the above sum, unless his immense size and extraordinary fatness would be likely to have reimbursed the butcher.* Presuming that the breed of the bull you sold possessed some particular good qualities, I shall deem myself much indebted for some information respecting him. I especially wish to know in what way the purchaser is to be reimbursed, or to obtain good

*This was strictly true at the time the above letter was written, and even now, the spirit for improving our breed of cattle is only commencing in Pennsylvania. December, 1810.