IV PREFACE. 



I am indebted to J. D. W. French, Esq., of North Andover, for 

 the ilhistration of his A3Tshire cow, " Rose," which appears as the 

 frontispiece of the Report. She is numbered 743 in the Ayrshire 

 Herd-book; in color, dark and white. Calved, May 7, 1864. Sire, 

 " Souter Johnnie " (71) ; dam, " Tulip 2d" (210), by " Rob Roy" 

 (58); grandam, "Tulip" (209), by "Oswald" (51); great-gran- 

 dam, "Tulip" (imported, 1855). 



"Souter Johnnie" (71); sire, "Blossom 2d" (11); dam, 

 "Kitty 4th" (117), by "Dundee 5th"; grandam, "Tibby 2d," 

 by "Wallace" (imported) ; " Tibby," by " Rob Roy" (imported) ; 

 by " Daisy," by " Rob Roy " (imported) ; by"Dais3"" (imported, 

 1839). 



Statement of milk for 1874-75. The record begins October 5th, 

 and continues for three hundred and twenty days, the whole time 

 in milk. Total yield in pounds, 8,409. Total yield in quarts, 

 3,911.16. Average yield in pounds per day, 26.27. Average yield 

 in quarts per day, 12.21-|-. 



CHARLES L. FLINT. 



