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she arrived. She has since been served by "Prince Albert," 

 and is now probably in calf. 



The subscriber regrets the accident which occurred to the 

 Ayrshire cow "Jeannie Deans," which was that of slipping 

 her calf on the night of the 10th of December last, after having 

 advanced about five months in her pregnancy. No satisfactory 

 cause can be assigned for this premature birth. She is, to all 

 appearances, the healthiest cow, and the greatest feeder, in the 

 flock. Being the master cow, she could not have been injured by 

 the other cows. She met with no accident known to the keeper. 

 Among twenty cows kept by the subscriber, but one instance of 

 abortion has occurred for twenty years past. — January 1, 1846. 



One of the Ayrshire cows," Mirly," which is probably the best 

 of the four Ayrshires, calved yesterday, and has given us a fine 

 heifer calf. The cow and calf are doing well. — Mirly will 

 no doubt do all that was anticipated of her. The size and 

 form of her milk-vessels have astonished every one that has 

 seen her. Twelve quarts of milk were drawn from her within 

 two hours after calving, and still her monstrous udder was ap- 

 parently but little reduced in size. This cow alone, if properly 

 appreciated, is of more value to the country than the cost of the 

 whole four. 



The subscriber is aware that some alarm may exist in the 

 minds of some on account of the expense of keeping the stock 

 imported, and it may be viewed by them as an appropriation of 

 the funds of the society of questionable expediency. But when 

 it is considered that we have annually expended, in premiums, 

 quite as large a sum as will be the annual expense of keeping 

 the stock, and from which we have no return, and, to say the 

 least of it, the result is of quite as doubtful utility as the meas- 

 ures we have adopted for the improvement of stock, it would 

 seem that the outlay for keeping, and for Avhich we may be 

 nearly if not wholly remunerated, should not be a subject of 

 alarm or doubtful expediency. — Aprils 1846. 



Since the last meeting of the Trustees, the subscriber regrets 

 the necessity of having to state the loss of the society's Ayrshire 

 cow, Charlotte. Up to the 24th of July, the stock, to all ap- 

 pearances, were healthy and doing well. On that day, the 



