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larger farm has its dairy, proportioned to its size and cultivation. 

 And as we look abroad, it must be apparent to every intelligent 

 observer, that he will be a true benefactor to our farming com- 

 munity, who will improve the dairy stock of New England, and 

 "bring it to as high a degree of uniformity as possible, making all 

 due allowance for diversities of climate and locality. 



Now, the observation of every man of experience will teach him 

 that wherever we find a locality famous for good cattle, the high 

 quality of that stock has come from some pure importation. More 

 than jSfty years ago, Mr. Vaughan, a liberal and intelligent gentle- 

 man, who conceived that England without Priestly was no place 

 for a christian to live in, followed that great philosopher and divine 

 in his flight to our shores, and settled on the banks of the Kenne- 

 bec. He imported Durham cattle of that day — the improved 

 Shorthorns of ours ; and you may find to this day, grazing in the 

 valley of that river, a large, thrifty, quick-growing, solid, massive 

 breed of cattle — the indigenous Shorthorns of that region, 

 indigenous, because they have become adapted through generations 

 to that soil and climate, and are now among the most profitable 

 products of the State. Go to Portsmouth and the surrounding 

 towns, and you will find cattle of similar quality and description, 

 the fruits of the more recent importations of Colonel Pierce ; — a 

 native stock now, but possessing certain characteristics, which 

 they never lose either in succeeding generations or in various 

 families. An importation into the valley of the Connecticut by 

 the late Mr. Williams, whose herd has been transmitted to as 

 much judgment and skill and intelligence as can be found even in 

 the old Country, has stamped the stock of that section with points 

 of value seldom equalled. I had often been struck with the 

 excellence of the cows in the Aroostook country, and thence to the 

 Bay of Fundy — a well bred, hardy, dairy-looking race of animals ; 

 and I soon discovered that some choice Ayrshires had been 

 brought into that region. The oxen of Meredith Bridge and Lake 

 Winnipisseogee — who has not admired their stately carriage, their 

 rich color, their symmetry of form, their thrift, and their size and 

 endurance. Thej'- are the modern Devon blood, mixed with the 

 Shorthorn — engrafted upon that soil, and brought to a high degree 

 of perfection by judicious care. In an obscure town in Massa- 

 chusetts, there was a remarkable cow, known of all men there- 

 abouts, distinguished from all the " old red stock," for her outline, 

 her milking qualities, her beauty ; her owner said she was English 



