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HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



H. H. Peters and William Birnie of Massachusetts, and Wal- 

 cott & Campbell of New York. 



In order to secure the best, from $400 to $750 each was 

 paid for foundation stock. 



Great care has been taken in selecting sires from cows 

 representing the highest type of the breed. Of late years 



AYRSHIRE BULL. 

 Owned by S. M. Wells, Ridgeside Farm, Wethersfield, Conn. 



bulls for this purpose have been secured from leading herds 

 in Canada. 



The increase of this herd has been distributed from Maine 

 to Mexico and nearly all the intermediate States, also con- 

 signments have been made to customers in Cuba and Japan, 

 such notable cows as Mysie 2d, with a record of over twelve 

 thousand pounds of milk per year for three successive years, 

 and twenty-one pounds of butter in one week. Dolly 3d 



