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of cattle breeding in Kentucky to experiment in 

 crossing the breeds. It will be observed that Jessica 

 shows indications of having been a good milker. 



We have found this plate in a queer old combina- 

 tion scrap-book and diary kept at one time by Col. 

 Sanders at his farm at Grass Hills. This volume 

 along with many interesting letters and various 

 documents relating to the early introduction of im- 

 proved live stock into the state of Kentucky, has 

 been kindly placed at the disposal of the author by 

 Mrs. N. C. Brown, a granddaughter of Col. Lewis 

 Sanders, residing at Ghent, Ky. It is to the cour- 

 tesy of Mrs. Brown that we are also indebted for 

 an old daguerreotype of Col. Sanders, from which 

 the portrait appearing in this volume has been 

 prepared. This picture was taken when the veteran 

 advocate of better farming was in his eightieth 

 year. Much interesting and hitherto undiscovered 

 material relating to Col. Sanders' life and work 

 deals more particularly with Shorthorns, however, 

 and is therefore reserved for publication in a revised 

 edition of the author's history of Shorthorn cattle, 

 to be undertaken in the near future. 



Introduced Into Massachusetts. The next Here- 

 fordshire blood brought to our shores, and of which 

 we have positive record, came in the shape of a bull 

 and a heifer presented by Admiral Coffin of the 

 Eoyal English Navy to the Massachusetts Society 

 for the Promotion of Agriculture, probably about 

 1825. The heifer never bred, but the bull, known 

 as Sir Isaac, became the property of Isaac C. Bates 



