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a few years every trace of the pure blood became extinct, or, if 

 the half-blood heifer was bred to the half-blood bull, the pro- 

 gress of improvement was limited to the half-blood. To obvi- 

 ate, therefore, this difficulty in the way of improvement, the 

 trustees decided to import the pure blood animals of both sexes, 

 and thereby secure the means of multiplying them among our- 

 selves, hoping, by this measure, to be enabled to avoid the ne- 

 cessity of breeding out, and, within a few years, to furnish an 

 ample supply of the pure blood animals, and thereby to enable 

 the farmers to improve the whole stock of the Commonwealth." 

 The Trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting 

 Agriculture have thus begun the work, and they hope and 

 trust that the intelligent yeomanry of the State will lend a pa- 

 tient and cheerful cooperation in promoting a cause so essential 

 to their interests. 



Respectfully submitted, by 



ABBOTT LAWRENCE, 

 JOHN C. GRAY, 

 J. C. WARREN, 

 DAVID SEARS, 

 HENRY CODMAN, 



Committee. 



Note. North Devon bull " Leicester," to Abiel Hey wood, Secretary of Middlesex 

 Agricultural Society, 16th November, 1S48. 



North Devon bull "King Philip," to E. H. Kellogg, Secretary of the Berkshire Agri- 

 cultural Society, 9th December, 1848. 



Ayrshire bull " Hamilton," to S. L. Hinckley, of the H. F. and Hampshire Agricul- 

 tural Society, 6th January, 1848. 



Ayrshire bull " McGregor," to William S. Lincoln, Secretary of the Worcester Agri- 

 cultural Society, 4th February, 1848. 



