326 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Charles 2d, imported by George Clark, of East 

 Springfield, Otsego County, N. Y. (one of the best 

 bulls I have ever seen). Subsequently I purchased 

 from the Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts, 

 imp. Milton, cow Cora and the heifer Promise, 

 both out of Milton, by imp. Cronkhill. Milton 

 dropped a bull calf by Cronkhill that I named Cronk- 

 hill 4th, and bred to the Sotham cows. I afterwards 

 purchased from Mr. Stone Admiral by imp. Patriot, 

 bred by Lord Bateman. Many of Admiral's calves 

 have proved large milkers and good buttermakers, 

 Agnes giving 5 gallons 1 pound of milk per day, 

 yielding 12 pounds 10 ounces butter in one week; 

 Bohemian Maid, 5 gallons 1 quart milk and 10 

 pounds 12 ounces butter in one week in January. ' ' 



This is the only reference we find to Geo. Clark as 

 an importer. 



Among the females obtained at that time through 

 Mr. Sotham were the imported cows Milton 976 and 

 Miss Tully 534. Milton was bred by Thomas 

 Longmore of Orleton near Ludlow and was got by 

 Wonder 451, of John Hewer's breeding, out of a 

 cow called Old Milton, whose lineage is unknown. 

 Milton was calved in 1850 and was therefore six 

 years old when purchased. Along with her came 

 her two daughters, own sisters, Cora 1064 and 

 Promise 1107, both by Cronkhill 1745, a bull that 

 came from Lord Berwick's, a son of the celebrated 

 Walford bred by this same Thomas Longmore and 

 a Eoyal celebrity of the early '50 's extensively used 

 by His Lordship at Cronkhill. The other imported 

 cow, Miss Tully, was a three-year-old bred by the 

 famous fighting parson, Eev. J. E. Smythies of 



