2 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY. 



delivered by Dr. Warren, one of the trustees, at the request of 

 the legislative agricultural society, last spring, is in the hall of 

 the medical college, and also the skeletons of the horse and cow, 

 subject to the order of the trustees. 



JOHN C. GRAY, 

 President of the Mass. S. for P. A. 



BENJ. GUILD, 

 Rec. Sec'y of the Mass. S. for P 4 A. 

 Boston, January, 1848. 



Mr. Phinney's Report. 



The subscriber, having in keeping the stock of cattle owned 

 by the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, 

 submits the following report : — 



It is now little more than two years since the Society, at an 

 expense of $2500, imported ten head of the Ayrshire and 

 North Devon breed of cattle, five of each, with a view of pro- 

 moting the interests of the farmers of the whole Commonwealth 

 by enabling them to improve their stock. The advantageous 

 circumstances under which the selection was made, have been 

 fully stated in a former report. They were all placed in the 

 care of the subscriber, on his farm at Lexington, where they 

 now remain. Nine of the original importation are now living, 

 one of the Ayrshire cows having died soon after calving, in the 

 summer of 1846. In October, 1846, the Society purchased, at 

 the sale of Capt. Randall's stock in New Bedford, his imported 

 Ayrshire cow " Young Swinley," and her heifer calf " Go wen," 

 then nearly three years old, and in calf by Capt. Randall's Ayr- 

 shire bull "Roscoe." 



From the whole of this stock, the Society have now thirteen 

 descendants, viz : ten bulls and three heifers, of the pure blood. 



A fine bull-calf from the Hon. John C. Gray's superior Ayr- 

 shire cow "Maggie," that was out of "Young Swinley," was 

 presented to the Society, in May last, by Mr. Gray, making in 



