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ported animals, selected with the best of care for this 

 purpose. They have generously placed them in the differ- 

 ent Counties of the Commonwealth, and called on the 

 farmers to take advantage of their offers. From some of 

 the Counties they have had favorable returns — Worcester 

 in particular — ^^but generally not so. In Essex, I reme mber, 

 we were favored with the offer of a bull. After delibera- 

 tion by the Trustees, they concluded to take an Ayrshire 

 animal, and appointed two of their most experienced men 

 from the best stock raising towns, Andover and Newbury, 

 to select him. He was received with all thankfulness — kept 

 at an expense of about two dollars a week — stationed in 

 different towns, and advertised in the Gazette, for a period 

 of two years, and finally died and was buried without 

 ceremony. You may ask what was the result of all this ? 

 According to the best information I can obtain, some of his 

 progeny were fair looking animals, but as a whole, the 

 Value of all that remain, distinctly marked as his descendants, 

 would not pay the expense of his keeping. The inference 

 must be, that the farmers did not think much of the animal 

 or that he was not worth keeping. I speak of this animal, 

 because I happened to knoAv his entire history ; like unfa- 

 vorable accounts I have heard from other Counties. 

 Although thousands of dollars have been expended by the 

 Massachusetts Society, in introducing and spreading abroad 

 foreign animals, I have great doubts whether any benefits 

 have resulted from these operations. 



Twenty-five years ago,Gorham Parsons, Esq. at the solicitation 

 of Col. Pickering, then President of the Essex county Society 

 presented the Society with an Alderney Bull, of superior prom- 

 ise. He was stationed at West Newbury, on the farm of Mr. 

 Newell, where he remained for several years, and was favorably 

 regarded. I am informed by that gentleman that his progeny 

 still remain in the town, and that they have some of the peculiar 

 haracteristics of the race, especially in the quality of their milk, 



