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he early showed his faith by his works in this branch of 

 husbandry and to his efforts, more perhaps than to any other 

 man's, we owe the law on our statute book for the protection 

 of sheep against dogs. The love of sheep seemed to grow 

 with him, till it ripened into a permanent appreciation of their 

 merits. So, too, he gathered about him on his farm a beauti- 

 ful herd of Jersey cows, and employed himself in various 

 ways, in disseminating this stock and making known its valu- 

 able properties as milkers. In these efforts for advancing the 

 agricultural interests of the county, as also in introducing new 

 and improved implements of husbandry, he spared no pains or 

 expense — not so much for himself as for others — and in these 

 respects he was truly and emphatically a public benefactor. 



At a later period, when the Treadwell Farm was bequeathed 

 to the Society, as an experimental farm, he was made the 

 chairman of a committee to institute such measures as might 

 be best adapted to carry into effect the object of the donor. 

 Addressing himself with characteristic energy and intelligence 

 to the work, he impressed his views on the report, which re- 

 sulted in the lease of the farm for a long term of years and on 

 such conditions that the funds of the Society were not to be 

 drawn upon. And though circumstances beyond the control of 

 the Society, have prevented this lease from being carried into 

 effect, except for a few years, the objects had in view by Mr. 

 Fay, and indorsed at the time by the Society, are entitled to 

 as much regard and appreciation, as if they had been wholly 

 successful. His great object was to benefit the farming of this 

 county, both by the terms of the lease and by the various ex- 

 periments to be conducted under it. In 1863, just before he 

 left this country to go abroad, he manifested his continued in- 

 terest in the farm by a conditional gift to it of forty valuable 

 sheep. In his letter on the subject, he said : 



" I think that the Treadwell farm ought to have a decided 

 turn given to its management by the adoption of some one 

 branch of agricultural industry, not to the exclusion of others, 

 but to which others should be subserveient. I have thought 



