158 IMPORTATIONS. 



with her descendants, for a dozen or fifteen years at 

 least. 3 



1837 In 1837, their merits at home having become more 

 widely known, we learn of two importations : the 

 one of Mr. J. P. Gushing, of Watertown ; the other 

 by the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of 

 Agriculture. 



Mr. Cushing's importation was made in the spring, 

 and consisted of four cows, Flora, Juno, Venus, 

 and Cora. 4 Three heifers appear to have been im- 

 ported in their dams, 5 and 6 and perhaps a bull. 5 Some 

 dozen years later Mr. Gushing presented one of his 

 bulls to the Worcester Co. Agricultural Society. 7 



During this year arrived the first importation of 

 the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Ag- 

 riculture, consisting of a bull and three cows, which 

 were all in calf when they arrived. The bull was 

 sent to the western part of the State, and was kept 

 near Pittsfield. 8 One of the cows was placed in the 

 care of Hon. P. C. Brooks, in Medford ; another in 

 the care of Hon. Daniel Webster, at Marshfield ; and 

 the third of Elias Phinney, of Lexington. This 

 last, 18 years old, was still living in 1847. 9 



In 1845 this Society made its second importation, 

 consisting of a bull, Prince Albert, and four cows, 

 Flora McDonald, Jennie Deans, Milly, and Charlotte. 

 These animals were selected by Mr. Alexander Brick- 



s U. S. Pat. Off. Reports, 1851, p. 91. Note. 



* Farmers' Lib iii, 304. 



e Capt. Randall's Ms. Herd Book. 



e A. H. B., B. 53, 702; C. 61, 732. 



7 Ag. of Mass. 1853, 311. 



8 U S. Dept. Ag. Rept. 1863, p. 197. Cultivator, Feb. 1848, p. 42. 

 Farmers' Lib. iii, 304. 



