Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-24
Echo Farm.

We have this week paid our annual visit to Echo Farm, and find everything in as perfect order as ever, apparently no relaxing of the stringent and admirable rules which govern that establishment The cattle are in splendid condition, and neatness prevails everywhere Mir. Starr has disposed of nearly all his grade animals, and hopes soon to part with the few that remain, as it is his determination to have none but such as are full-blooded and register ed in the American Jersey Cattle Club Herd Book. His famous bull, ''Litchfeld," looks as well to-day as when he was awarded the Gen. tennial Special First Prize at Philadelphia His new two-year-old bull, 'John Rex" has wonthefirst honorsa every fair at which he has been exhibited, and we do not wonder that Hartford paper spoke of him as the most per feet animal of his kind ever exhibited.
 It is needless for us to sound the praises of the Echo Farm Herd, for it has spoken for it. self, having this fall taken the following First Prizes, viz:
 Ar THE CONNECTICUT STATE FAIR AT HART FoRD.-The only two Sweepstake Prizes. The Herd Prizes, and four other First Prizes.
 AT ToRRINGToN FAIR-Nine First Prizes, being all that were offered. .f.
 Ar WATERFOWL FA1R.-Eight First Prizes, being all but one that were offered.
 Ar DANBuRY FAIR. -Nine First Prizes, be- ing all but one that were offered
 It also earned off numerous Second Prizes, at the above fairs.
 Mir. Starr is frequently receiving highly sat- isfactory letters from those who have purchas- ed some of his stock. From one of these let ters from Wisconsin, we extract the following: beat any you now have. She is giving forty to forty-two pounds of milk every twenty -four hours, of the richest kind; and is making over two and a half pounds of butter day. One other is nearly her equal They scoop the pre- miums at all our fairs Scotia Ca son of Litchfeld) is doing finely" -r.
 Another purchaser, who owns Controller (also son of Litchfeld), reports that he head ed the herd which won the Gold Medal First Prize) at the last New York State Fair, where he likewise won the First Prize for best bull of his age.
 The illustrated article upon this farm, in Harper's Magazine for the present month, has already brought many persons from distant parts to see it. Several gentlemen belonging to the Chinese Embassy visited the farm last Friday, and to use their own expression, "were hugely de- lighted" with all they saw. The farming i'm plements were new to them, and attracted much attention. A moving machine was put in motion in an adjacent field, that the work ing of it might bebetter understood. A thrash CT and cleaner, also Foust's hay loader were minutely inspected and explained, as were also the horse power machines, &c.
 To the astonishment and delight of all pres ent, Mir. Starr stated that he had just received an order through his New York agents, for forty prints (twenty pounds) of butter to be sent at once by express to China. It was a re- markable coincidence that this order should have arrived just at that time, and that so many members of the Embassy should be pres ent to see the churning of the first fresh butter ever sent by express from this part of the world (and perhaps from any other quarter of the globe) to China.
 Another coincidence was that the same train which brought the Chinese gentlemen from Hartford, also brought two other gentlemen who had unexpectedly come to see Echo Farm, one of whom is an extensive stock breeder from California, thus forming as it were a link connecting New England and | China.