138 ON THE STATE SOCIETY'S BULL. 



imported stock then in the care of Elias Phinney, Esq., and receipt- 

 ed for the same, in accordance with the rule prescribed by the Trus- 

 tees of the State Society. 



A few days after, the bull was taken to Andover, to Dr. Kit- 

 tredge's farm, and on the third of February was taken to Moses 

 Newell's farm, in West Newbury, where he remained until April 

 28th, when he was taken to Eben G. Berry's, of Danvers, for the 

 use of cows. Previous to this time no cows had been put to him-. 



He remained at Danvers until the first of June, and while there 

 he was put to eight cows-. He was then taken to Dr. Kittredge, of 

 Andover, where he remained until the first of July, during which 

 time fourteen cows were put to him. He was then taken to David 

 S. Caldwell's, of Byfield, and has been in his charge to this time, 

 and is to be kept there during the winter. Sixteen cows were put 

 to him in July and August, and eight since. The whole number of 

 cows put to him during the season was forty-six. 



The cows put to the bull have generally been of good quality, — a 

 part are of extra quality, — a part have a mixture of late foreiga 

 importation, and one is described as being Durham, a great milker, 

 belonging to Charles G. Loring. 



The bull is now nearly three years old, of medium size, fine dark 

 Fed, with a mixture of white, a sprightly, active animal, from Eng- 

 lish stock, possessing more than ordinary milking properties, accord, 

 ing to English publications. It is desirable that all his calves should 

 be raised, especially the heifers, that a fair experiment may be made 

 to test fully the difference in the quality of the half blood cows^ 

 when compared with other milk stock, whether of late or early im- 

 portation. (By early importation we mean what is generally termed 

 native stock.) 



If all the heifer calves are raised — say from twenty to twenty- 

 five — and compared with a like number raised under similar circum- 

 stances, and in the same vicinity, where no cross of late importation 

 has been resorted to, may we not then be prepared to decide, in 

 some goood degree, whether we have improved upon the original 

 stock imported at the settlement of the country, in the same ratio 

 that the British breeders have done, who have by various crosses 

 originated the variety known there as the Ayrshire ? 



Still, whatever may be the result of this experiment, it may not 

 be that the A^yrshire is the best foreign variety to cross with our 



