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age being thus only a very small fraction (eleven hundredtlis,) 

 more than 16 pounds in the hundred of live weight, or 10 per 

 cent. I do not recollect that any animal ever dressed a greater 

 dead weight for the live weight. 



On being cut up, the beef of this fine cow showed superbly. 

 It was beautifully marbled, and the whole caxcass was remark- 

 able for its great amount of lean meat. 



Grace was a pure Short Horn, was calved in 1841, and waa 

 got by Victor (9,780,) dam Daisy by Bertram II, (3,114,) gran- 

 dam Delight, by Devonshire (966,) great grandam Daisy, by 

 Admiral (1,608,) gr. gr. g. dam, Yellow Rose, by Young Den- 

 ton (1,963,) gr. gr. gr. g. d., Arabella, by North Star (460,) gr. 

 gr. gr. gr g. d., Aurora, by Comet (155,) gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. g. d., 

 by Henry (301,) gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. g. d., by Danby (190,) 

 (See American Herd Book, page 182, and English Herd Book, 

 vol. 8, page 370.) 



Grace left no progeny behind her, except one bull, now three 

 years old. All her calves were bulls, and she produced five, 

 and was in calf with her sixth. 



AMBROSE STEVENS. 



JVev}~York City. 



. FRANCIS' METALLIC LIFE-BOAT. 



.JSTew-York, Fehy., Qth, 1851. 

 Genl. Chandler, 



Dear Sir — It affords me great pleasure to believe that the 

 American Institute has been instrumental in some degree, in 

 bringing before the public some five years since, the name of a 

 man, who has in that short period, by his own unaided inven- 

 tive genius, done more to preserve and secure life from ship- 

 wreck, than any man now living. I allude to Joseph Francis, in- 

 ventor of the " Metallic Life-Boat." He has struggled without 

 aid in a pecuniary point of view ; and against the prejudices, 

 opposition, and conflicting interests of sliip owners, boat builders 

 and the people at large. Now the whole coast of Long Island 



