Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-30
cut up and stacked. and was an !ilnlaen

crop. The second crop of sowed corn on the same land thls year. was being har- vested. The fences are straight no worm fences being ailowedl and nl..st1y of posts and boards. with sabstaLiial gates. The principal revenue, from the farm is from fine, high-priced, full blood cd animals. which bring yearly about $5O0O; the butter rather more. No grain or fodder is sold The vegetables are cut. steamed with the hay, and fed to about 60 COWS. and some other stock.
 The milk room is 16x2O feet, sunk part ly below the surface, and the windows are furnished with shutters and wire gauge It has slated shelves and is kept by the thermometer at about 60. by means of a stove in winter, and ventilation pipes through the Ice house in summer. do not propose to speak of the exact process of manufacture of the butter, for one great object had in visiting this dai- " was to get all the information could in the making Of prime article Of butter at home for the Waterbury market, but snf- flee it to say that the butter from this dairy has sold the past year for 7J cents per pound. A little over $500 wotth was sold in the month of January last. Such sweet and golden butter made by the neat and skillful hand of Mrs, Crozier. it has never before been my good fortune to see No domestic is allowed in the creamery, for each churning of butter must be an exact counterpart of the other. This is So in my own dairy at home and thought my wife kept her dairy-house the neatest and sweetest of all, but must confess that Mrs Crozier's throws our own in the shade. Any one going in blindfolded would never know from any smell of cream or sourness. but what he was in q Fifth avenue hotel. A word in regard to the stock on this farm-the sight of which will never be effaced from my mind. The COWS for the most part were Attorneys, and were very superior animals. A few Ayreshires that came into the stable to be mixed with the rest Cfor they lie in pas ture on the meadows now) were great disappointment to me; for at home had seen none of this breed such thick stout built, square rigged animals. The Ayre- shire bull. Jock 4th, is a long, large, stout, thickset bull, second to no one of the breed have chanced to meet; but an Alderney bulf two years old, nearly red, l think the best proportioned bull that I have ever seen, as much as I admire the Short-horns. Most farmers in Litchfeld county sheer at the Alderney because they are small, but the old Alderney bull on the Beacon stock farm, will compare fa- vorably for size with any except the very largest breeds. Many times when look ing at the portraits of animals in the ag- rioultural papers, men have said to me, ''do you suppose that there was ever an animal as handsome as those pictures rsts, resentg I had not supposed that there was, but the two year old bull ''Comet, and the stallion ''Lord Clyde," I think will fill the bill. Being shown this stal- lion by Mir. Crozier, I exclaimed, "that horse is more perfect than his portrait P and was then told that they were not sat- isded with the portrait that had been pub lished, and had procured another celebra- ted artist to come there and take him over again; but when he saw him he exclaimed that ''no artist in the land could do that horse justice" consider it worth wis., it to the Island to see this horse, blood ed bay weighing 1,6OO; and the farm is second to none that have seen in any place East or West The soil is no better than ours. but the management is certain ly vast improvement.
 l.. F. ScoTT,
 Wood Greek Farm. Bethlehem, Ct.