Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-10-03
W. STAUNYON, (VA) WEDNESDAY, OCYOHER a ,sAo

Tor preparing Iced Tho floors of the stables are
movable plank, beneath which every fall, is depos-
iteo large quantities of muck OF loam, which is re-
moved In the spring, making the richest manure for
dressing land
MT. Webster has the best blooded cattle in New
England. His milch cows are mostly of the AYR
SHIRE breed, regarding them as race of good milk
ors, healthy and hardy, enduring the New England
winters, and living and thriving in pastures, none
OF the best lie has the Aldernev breed, often
called the cottage COW, in England, admirable for
quantity and quality Of milk but are tender and re-
qulre great care and good living. He thinks the
AYRSHIRE and selections from native stock GOOD
cross, of which saw beautiful specimens. He has
COW OF the mixed breed, which this year and the
last, IN the height of the season, gave fifty two
pounds OF milk per day, equal to twenty six quarts
| she is MIXED three times daily.
Ills farm is principally cultivated by oxen, and
tor this use he regards nothi2g equal TO the Devon
breed. He says the finest working oxen, are the
| dark red, found in Worcester county, Massachu-
sets, and Connecticut
His hogs of the best breed. and he has male
| of the Mackay breed, nineteen years old This
| breed is close, and square built, small heads and
short noses, latton well and make excellent pork
or this breed he furnishes largely each year to New
York, Vermont and Massachusetts. saw ten pigs
OF this breed and of the litter, that will now
average 200 pounds each, and will average this
fall, he says, not less than 400 pounds each.
Tie has large fields of corn, potatoes, turnips,
beets and grain his and potato fields the finest
by Tar, have seen this year. He has potato field
OF twelve acres, from which he expects to take 1000
bushels TO market. tie has field of corn of about
twenty acres, MANFRED entirely with kelp, which
Is very stout and promising Kclp is a submarine
weed, which is thrown upon the sea beach i'm win
rows, during the upheavings of the ocean this is
gathered and spread upon the land, making en- ex-
cellent manure.
1t is thus by continuous hard labor and the prac
teal application of the more thorough knowledge of
farming, that Mr.. Webster has made his extensive
estate productive. His whole farm is in admirable
condition, fences durable and in excellent repair
no weeds, bushes, briers, thises anywhere visi-
Bile. His gates, roads, barns Sheds Sc, i'm per-
tect order and repar-a place for every thing and
every thing in It's proper place, and all under the
personal direction and supervision Of Mr.. Webster
himself. He is emphatically The farmer of Marsh
field-the farmer of New England
| That which Mr.. Webster seemed TO regard with
the greatest pride and satisfaction was his pIantcd
Forests. He has now growing one hundred
thousands forest trees, which he has raised himself
mostly from the seed. A beautiful forest of many
acres, covering gentle elevation, in view from his
house, is from his own planting; and another wide
6eH OF forest trees OF various kinds, extending half
mile, to protect his mansion from the cold north
east Winds is also of his planting. They are oaks
pines, horse chesnutS catapas locusts elms, sas-
satras, and trees from the West and South such as
white oak buckeye, American lime, red5ud, &c.
His repeated efforts TO raise live oak have entirely
failed
Mr.. Webster's uniform habit is 10 rise at 4 ocloc,
In the morning-attend TO his correspondence ST.,
breakfast at O'Clock, then ri e and walk over his
extensive farm, direct and superintend the work
dine at ) O'Clock, and then devote himself to the
entertainment of his family and friends until about
III o'clock, at which hour and generally earlier, he
retlres He is very fond of Hunting and fishing, and
has an abundant supply of fast sailing barges boats
Goldfish lines, troutrods and appurienances. guns
dogs, &c; and in these manly and heathlulspor,s
he freely INDUCES.
Daniel Webster born in Salisbury, New
Hampshire, January Is, 1882, and is, of course
now in the 6Sth year of his age, yet he has the
physical strength ard activity Of most men at the
age of fiFty-indeed there Is not, believe, mar
now living who has done as much intellectual la
Dor and is now capable of as much in a given time
and few men of his age, of any profession or call
ing, as physically vigorous, or capable Of endu
ring as much bodily exercise and labor.