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females of the different breeds kept apart. There is room 

 enough for both breeds to be raised together, and I really hope 

 the Resolution will be so amended, that it will allow of intro- 

 ducing two of the breeds together, where they can have the 

 treatment of the same person. 



Prof. Paul A. Chadbourne, of Williams College. — While 

 listening to the remarks of the gentlemen who have preceded 

 me, I thought this was going to lay a great responsibility upon 

 the superintendents of our public institutions. As these institu- 

 tions are not founded for such a purpose, we can scarcely expect 

 them to do many different kinds of service. But if they will 

 take one specific kind — if they will each of them do it — we shall 

 have institutions near enough to have a sort of comparison. 



But I understand that we shall have an Agricultural College 

 where this business of experiment should be carried on on a 

 larger scale. The business of that college will be to attend to 

 this matter on a more extended scale, and while these other 

 institutions shall take one breed, and that which is best adapted 

 to the vicinity, the Agricultural College will bring different 

 ■breeds together in such numbers that you can have a herd of 

 Jerseys, and a herd of Ayrshires, and of Shorthorns, if you 

 please, and still keep them entirely distinct, though under one 

 herdsman. There you can have the very comparison to which 

 Mr. Stedmau has referred. I consider the point to which he 

 referred to be one of great importance. The only question with 

 me is. Is it possible for these institutions, which are founded for 

 another and an entirely distinct purpose, to so far turn aside as 

 to take up the rearing of two or three distinct herds, and bring 

 out the peculiarities of each ? Would it not be better to confine 

 them to one distinct breed ? 



Mr. Keith, of Grafton, asked Mr. Thompson, of Nantucket, to 

 give the result of his experience with Ayrshires. 



Mr. Thompson. — I think it is asking rather too much of me 

 to give my experience in raising Ayrshires, as I have not owned 

 the- breed long enough to instruct gentlemen who have owned 

 the stock almost since I was born. My attention has been 

 turned to the Ayrshire breed particularly. After looking at 

 breeds from one end of the State to the other, almost, I suc- 

 ceeded in oljtaining Ayrshires ; and I think I got the right kind. 

 I have been into a number of herds. I have seen the herds of 



