IMPORTATIONS OF DEVONS. 225 



1850, they imported Albert (2), whose progeny has stood high 

 in the country, and received more premiums than the progeny 

 of any other bull lately imported. Beauty (523), bred by 

 Mr. Hurlburt, in 1836, from Fancy (709), and Exchange 

 (197), produced sixteen pounds of butter per week in June, 

 1850, when she was fifteen years old. Mr. Coleman says, in his 

 "European Agriculture," "The most productive cow in butter 

 which I have found in England was a North Devon, which, 

 for several weeks in succession, without extra feed, produced 

 twenty-one pounds of butter per week. The character of the 

 owner places the fact beyond a doubt." 



Mr. L. F. Allen, of Black Rock, N. Y., commenced breeding 

 in 1835, from stock obtained from the Hon. James L. King, 

 of New York, whose father imported them about the year 

 1819, from the herd of the Earl of Leicester ; in 1842, he 

 added to his herd from Mr. Patterson's stock. In 1844, 

 the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture 

 imported four cows and one bull, Bloomfield (372), from the 

 Earl of Leicester. They were boarded and bred for the 

 society on the farm of Elias Phinney, of Lexington, till his 

 death, the object being to present a pair to each of the county 

 societies in the State. In 1848, Mr. C. S. Wainwright, of 

 Rhinebeck, N. Y., commenced importing and breeding his 

 herd. His first importation was the bull Megunticook (251), 

 and the cows Nonpareil (924) and Helena (774). Helena 

 gave as high as twenty-two quarts of milk per day, and made 

 fiiteen pounds of butter per week. In 1851, he imported May 

 Boy (71), whose granddara, Old May Flower, made over 

 seventeen pounds of butter per week. In 1853, Mr. George 

 Vail, of Troy, N. Y., imported one bull and two heifers from 

 the herds of Mr. Davy and the Earl of Leicester. In 1850 

 and 1852, Col. L. G. Morris, of New York, imported animals 

 from the herds of the Earl of Leicester, the Messrs. Quartly, 

 and John Ayer Thomas. Abijah Catlin, of Connecticut, 

 imported, in 1851, Rubens (116), and two heifers. Many 

 others have imported animals equally meritorious, among 

 whom may be mentioned, Ambrose Stevens, of Batavia, N. Y., 

 E. G. Faile, West Farms, N. Y., R. Linsley, West Meriden, 

 Conn., R. W. Sanford, Orwell, Vt., E. P. Beck, Sheldon, 

 N. Y., and R. H. Van Rensselaer, of Morris, N. Y. These 

 29 



