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Wells presented a bull to the Westboroiigh Agricultural Society, 

 but without a pedigree. The same year William Cushman, of 

 New Braintree, owned bull " Boz," (280.) " Boz " was of the 

 Williams stock. The same year, Elias Ayers and William 

 Broad, of Barre, owned the bull " Young Monarch," (106,) 

 bred by C. H. Hall, New York. In 1844, Mr. Ayers owned the 

 bull " Hawthorn," (74,) also bred by Mr. Hall. There was also 

 another bull, " Duke," (54,) bred by E. P. Prentice, of New 

 York. These last four named bulls have done much to produce 

 that splendid cheese dairy stock of Barre and vicinity. The 

 dairy farmers of that neighborhood still use thoroughbred bulls 

 for their dairy cows, and I think, and they have no doubt, to 

 their advantage. There are also several thoroughbred cows now 

 owned in that vicinity. The principal breeders of the Short- 

 horns in the county at the present time are Messrs. Wood, 

 Commins and Holman, of Grass Hill, Millbury ; William Cush- 

 man, of New Braintree ; State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, and 

 P. M. Wood, of Grafton. 



AYRSHIRES. 



Some five fine specimens were imported by the Massachusetts 

 Society — four cows and one bull — in 1845, and about the same 

 time, by Captain Randall, of New Bedford. In the year 1849, 

 the society sent a bull, called " McGregor," to the Worcester 

 society. He was kept for some time in Worcester, at the farm 

 of Hon. John W. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln, about the same time, 

 procured from the New Bedford herd one or more heifers. 

 These animals formed the nucleus of the herd now owned by B. 

 J. Stone, of Sturbridge ; also that of Gen. Lyman, in the 

 vicinity of Boston, of 0. B. Hadwen, of Worcester, and, in a 

 measure, that of Dr. Loring, of Salem. The more recent 

 * importations of the same society have not added much to the 

 value of the neat stock of the county, with here and there an 

 exception. Mr. H. H. Peters, in 1858, imported some twenty- 

 five head of choice animals, which have since been scattered 

 through the country. But few of the seventy to eighty which 

 were sold at his public sale, in the spring of 1865, were retained 

 in the county. 



