318 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



ture and was for years a member of the Ontario 

 Board of Agriculture and president of the Agricul- 

 ture and Arts Association. He did not seek public 

 office at all, although in 1867 in the Confederation 

 election he ran in the Conservative interest but was 

 unsuccessful. 



Like all the other strong characters which Canada 

 has contributed to North American agricultural his- 

 tory, Mr. Stone possessed the Briton's in-born lik- 

 ing for good animals, and although deeply engrossed 

 in merchandising he found leisure to devote both 

 time and money in generous measure to the main- 

 tenance of herds and flocks that proved throughout 

 a long series of years a source of satisfaction to 

 himself and of profit to his patrons in both coun- 

 tries. 



He is said to have imported the first Suffolk 

 horses, Yorkshire and Berkshire pigs, Southdown 

 and Cotswold sheep into Ontario, as well as the first 

 English and silver pheasants, Dorking fowls and 

 Aylesbury ducks. On his farm he had a nursery 

 where he grew over 100 varieties of roses, also many 

 different varieties of fruit trees, Austrian pines, 

 spruce, etc. 



At the Provincial Exhibition in 1879 at Ottawa, 

 Mr. Stone won a great many prizes and medals, in- 

 cluding the Governor General's gold medal award- 

 ed to exhibitor receiving greatest number of prizes 

 for cattle. This medal was presented to Mr. Stone 

 by H. E. H. the Princess Louise. During that same 

 year he won two gold, six silver and six bronze 



