PEEFAOE 



I am indebted to the owners of the animals illustrated in this volume for the 

 use of the engravings, and my thanks are due to them on behalf of the 

 Board. 



The thoroughbred stallion " Gray Eagle " was bred in Kentucky, and is 

 now owned by Winthkop W. Chexery, Esq., of Belmont. He was got by 

 " Gray Eagle"— he by " Woodpecker,"— out of " Ophelia" by " Wild Med- 

 ley," — and he by imported " Medley," dam by " Wildair," — imported " Med- 

 ley " by " Gimcrack," — out of " Arminda " by " Snap," — grand dam, " Miss 

 Cleveland," by " Regulus,"— " Midge," by a son of " Bay Bolton,"— by " Bart- 

 Ictt's Childers," — by " Honywood's Arabian," dam of the two " True Blues." 

 Dam of " Gray Eagle " by imported " Trustee,"— he by " Catton," out oi" 

 " Emma " by " Whisker,"— grand dam " Gibside Fairy " by " Hermas,"— 

 "Vicissitude" by " Pipator,"—" Beatrice " by "Sir Peter,"— "'Pyrrha " by 

 " Matchem,"— " Duchess " by Whitenose,"— " Miss Slamerkin " by " Young 

 True Blue," by Lord Oxford's " Dun Arabian," — D'Arcy's black-legged 

 Eoyal mare, grand-dam of " Gray Eagle " by " Columbus," (sire of " Eliza 

 Bailey ") — grand grand-dam by " Stockholder," — he by " Sir Archy," by 

 imported " Diomed," — grand grand grand-dam by " Pacelot," — he by imported 

 " Citizen,"— dam, " Mary Gray" by " Tippoo Saib." 



" Gray Eagle " is of a beautiful gray color, stands about 16 hands high, and 

 is a horse of great symmetry and power. He had a good reputation as a run- 

 ning horse, prior to being trained as a trotter. 



The beautiful Shorthorn cow " Mattie Newell " was bred and is owned by 

 Jos. A. Harwood, Esq., of Littleton, Mass. She is red with a little white; 

 and was calved April 25th, 1867. Got by " Sheridan," 6,179— out of " Eva," 

 by '• Backwoodsman," 226—" Ann Gwynne," by " Prince Albert," 853- 

 " Daisy Second," by " Dandy," 50—" Daisy," by " King Charles Second," 

 8i— " Dafodill," by " Sampson," (5,081)—" Young Daisy," by " Dandy," 



(1,900)—" ," by Wilkinson's bull, (2,838)-"^ '-," by Greathead's 



bull, (3,936) etc. 



The Caraman, or Fat-tailed Sheep, were imported from Karamania, in 

 Asiatic Turkey, by W. W. Chexery, of Highland Stock Farm, Belmont. 



There appear to be many varieties of the fat or broad-tailed sheep found in 

 Asia and Africa, and among naturalists they form a group by themselveg. 

 The tail, in some of these varieties or families, will weigh fifteen to twenty 

 pounds ; but in some of the larger kinds, when well fattened, it will weish 

 seventy, eighty, and, in rare cases, even so high as one hundred and fifty 



