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Haskings. Her cream was of such extraordinary richness, that 

 according to Mr. Cohnan, it would often separate into butter 

 by the motion of the carriage while carrying it into Boston. 

 The whole of that remarkable breed of cows called the Cream- 

 pot breed, and whose products have been hinted at above, de- 

 scended from this native Groton cow, by a cross with the im- 

 proved Durham short-horned bull Coelebs, imported some years 

 since, and owned afterwards by Col. Jaques. This breed of 

 cows had reached the third generation in 1838, since which 

 time I have not known their history. 



But the facts here recited, go to show conclusively, that by 

 a judicious choice of the bull, onr native breed of cows can be 

 made to do all that cows ought to do, or ever have done any 

 where ; while the present condition of the cows of our county, 

 at least, proves as clearly that without attention, great atten- 

 tion, to the bull, nothing effectual can ever be done at improv- 

 ing stock. What were the results of the Charlestown experi- 

 ment, made at the Colonel's Ten Hills stock farm ? "I have 

 forty cows and heifers," says he, " ten bulls and bull calves of 

 different grades of this cream-pot breed, all raised by myself. 

 I keep my bulls, selected as breeders, until I have proof of the 

 quality of their offspring. My old cream-pot bull is ten years 

 old. My Don cream-pot, from which I am now breeding with 

 some of my cows and heifers, is three years old." 



Extraordinary native cows are not wanting in every town, 

 which can often be purchased reasonably, for making a begin- 

 ning. Thus, to go no further, a few of those cited by the late 

 lamented Mr. Cohnan, may be mentioned to show that they 

 can easily be found ; one single cow being sufficient to begin 

 with, as was the case in the grand experiment above referred 

 to. The cow of Mr. Colt, of Pittsfield, produced 193 pounds of 

 butter in 148 days, and that from 1st December to 27th April ! 

 Mr. Campbell's cow, (same town,) ^aelded 26 beer quarts of 

 milk per day, and Hosea Merrill's, 30 beer quarts. A four year 

 old cow of Calvin Davis's produced 225 pounds of butter in 

 172 days, and fatted a calf, in the year 1838. Wm. Dewey's 

 two cows averaged for a time 14 pounds of butter each per week, 

 and so did Dr. Hyde's of Stockbridge. A cow of Thomas 



