ON THE STATE SOCIETY'S BULL. lo9 



present stock ; and it is to be hoped that like experiments that are 

 now going on mth. the Ayrshire and the Devons, will be made with 

 the Irish Kersj and the Ilerefords. The short horns, or Durhams, 

 have a mixture of their blood in the county, mostly from the bull 

 Admiral, and although he was imported many years ago, and kept, 

 we believe, only at the farm of E. Hersey Derby, in Salem, yet 

 even now his descendants show size and points of fine form rarely to 

 be met with and combined in other varieties ; and none will deny 

 that some of them have proved first rate milkers. 



Understanding that it is the design of the State Society to dis- 

 tribute the progeny of the stock they imported, we would recommend 

 to the Trustees of the Society to make application to the Trustees 

 of the State Society for an Ayrshire cow, at as early a day as they 

 may have one for disposal, in order that the county may be prepared 

 with full bloods to meet the wants of the dairy farmers in all parts 

 of the county. And also ask for a Devon bull, or a pair of Devons, 

 as soon as our turn may come, should they continue to distribute 

 their favors. 



MOSES NEWELL, 



JOSEPH KITRIDGE, 



JOHN STONE, Jr. 

 Dec. 19, 1849. 



The following letter, from the best authority as to the introduction 

 of foreign animals into New England, will be read with interest, 

 and fully explains the remark made at the close of the Report on 

 Dairy Products, page 40. 



Ten Hills Farm, near Boston, Mass., ) 

 December, 10th, 1849. ( 



John W. Proctor, Esq., 



Ml/ Dear Sir : — In reply to yours of the 23d ult. and of the 5th 

 inst ; the first and only importation, within my knowledge, of Gal- 

 loway Polled, or hornless breed of cattle into New England, was 

 about the years 1797 to 1800. A gentleman by the name of Joseph 

 Russell, then residing in Boston, imported, I think, six cows and a 

 bull, and placed them on what was then called Hog Island, now 



