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the oxen and stables for the cows-extensve sheds
TO protect the young cattle from the irosts OF VIM
ter-hog houses and "pig-pens = with the most
comfortable apartments, and every convenience and
facility for preparing the feed. The noors oil
the stables movable plank, beneath which, every
fall is deposited large quantities of :" muck" or
loam which is removed in the spring, making the
richest manure for dressing land
| Mr. Webster has the best blooded cattle IN New
England, His mich cows are mostly of the Ayr
shire breed regarding them as race of good milk
ers, healthy and hardy, enduring the New England
winters, and living and thriving on pastures 'none
of the best" He has the Alderney breed, often
called the cottage COW, In England, admirable for
quantity and quality of milk, hut are tender and re-
qure great care and good living. He thinks the
Ayrshire and selections from native stock good
cross, of which | saw beautiful specimens. he
has a COW of the mixed breed, which this year and
the last, IN the heighth Of the season, gave hty-
two pounds of milk per day, equal 10 twenty-slx
quarts-she is MIXED three times daily.
His farm is principally cultivated by oxen, and
for this he regards nothing equal to the Devon
shire, or what is much the same, the New Eng
land breed. He says the finest working oxen are
the dark red, found in Worcester county, Massa-
chusetts, and Connecticut.
His hogs are of the best breed, and has male,
of the Mackay breed, nineteen years old. This
short noses, fatten well and make excellent pork.
or this breed he furnishes largely, each year,
New York Vermont and Massachusetts. / saw
ten pigs of this breed and of the same litter, that
wi now average 200 pounds each, and will aver
age this fall, he says, not less than 400 pounds
each.
| He has large fields of corn, potatoes, turnips,
beets, beans, and grain his corn and potato fields
| the finest, by far, have seen this year. He has
potato field of twelve acres, from which he expects
to take 1000 bushels for Market that will realize
to him two thousand dollars He has field Of corn
Of about twenty acres, MANFRED entirely with kelp,
| which is very " stout" and promising. kslp is
| submarine weed, which is thrown upon the sea-
| beach in winrows, during the upheavings Of the
ocean. This is gathered and spread upon the land,
making an excellent manure. Large quantities of
fish were also taken from the sea and spread upon
the land for manure.
Ii is thus by continuous hard labor, and the prac-
teal application of the most thorough knowledge
of farming that Mr.. Webster has made his extern
sve estate productive. His whole farm is in adj
mirable condition, fences durable and in excellent
repair-no weeds, bushes, briers, or thstles any
where vlsible-his gates, roads, barns, sheds, &C.,
in perfect order and repair-a place for every thing
and every thing in its proper pace-and all under
the personal direction and supervision Of Mr. Web
ster himself He is emphaucay the farmer of
Marshfeld--the farmer Of New England
That which Mr.. Webster seemed to regard with
the greatest pride and satisfaction his planted
forests. He has now growing over one hundred
thousand 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
bell of forest trees Of various kinds, extending half
mile, TO protect his mansion from the cold north
east winds, is also of his planting There are oaks,
pines, horse-chestnuts chestnus, catapas, locusts,
elms sassafras, and trees from the west and
southwest such white oak, buckeye, American
lime, redbud &C., &c. His repeated efforts to raise
live oaks have entirely failed
| Mr.. Webster's uniform habit is, to rise at
o clock in the morniDg-attend to his correspond
| ence, &c.-breakfast at O'Clock, then ride and
walk over his extensive farm, direct and superin-
| tend the work-dine at o'clock, and then devote
| himself 10 the entertainment of his family and
| friends until about 10 clock, at which hour and
generally earlier, he retires. He is very fond Of
hunting and fishing, and has an abundant supply
of fast-saiing barges, boats, codfsh-lines trout
rods and appurtenances, guns, dogs, &C. and in
these manly and healthy sports he freely INDUCES.
Daniel Webster was born In Salisbury, New
Hampshire, January le, 1882, and is, Of course,
now in the sixtyeighth year of his age yet he has
the physical strength and activity of most men at
the age of fifty. Indeed, there is not, believe,
man now living who has done as much intellectual
| labor, and is capable of much in given
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calling, physically vigorous, capable Of
enduring as much bodily exercise and labor.
| | have thus mentioned some of the prominent
objects and things Of interest connected with the
HoNE of Daniel Webster; but TO be appreciated in
all their beauty and worth, they must be visited
and IL is certainly matter Of extreme graft
hcalion to his friends and admirers, land who does
not admire his pre-eminent abilities, and feel CRATE
ful for his great and invaluable public services
to find him surrounded with all the comforts and
substantial eeganeies tung bis age, his position
and his worth.
Mr.. Webster has but one child living-Mr
Fletcher Webster-who has very fine country
residence overlooking the sea, adjoining his faith
er's estate, and about one mile distant from the
mansion house. A daughter and son, Mrs Apple
ton and Captain Edward Webster, died within the
past year; and | cannot refrain mentioning an al
fecting incident in this connexon and conclusion.
Having spent the day in riding and walking over
the farm, we returned for dinner; and just as we
were entering The house, Mr. Webster remarked
that there thing more he desired to show
me. followed on the piazza to the front Of the
house; he there pointed beautiful trees, the
earth around their roots yet fresh. There, said
he, are two resping eLns-l call them Brother
and Sister. Z" The tears gushed from his eyes and,
without another word, he suddenly left me. re-
quired no explanation, for had known the " bro
Their and sister" 0TSEGo.
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