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worthy, and Mr. Davy, of Flitton Barton, Devonshire, England. 

 Mr. Quartley is the most distinguised breeder in England, and 

 has won more prizes than any other. The last show of the great 

 English Agricultural Society, was held in 1850, at Exeter, in 

 Devonshire. The display of Devons was the best ever seen, and 

 Mr. Quartley, won every premium save one. One of the bull 

 calves Avhich I imported, was got by Mr. Quartley's first prize 

 bull that won at the Norwich show, 1849, of the English Agri- 

 cultural Society, and was out of his first prize cow, at Exeter, 

 1850 ; and the yearling brother of this bull calf, won the first 

 prize for yearling bulls at Exeter, and his two year old sister, 

 won the first prize for two year old heifers at the Exeter show 

 of the great English Agricultural Society. 



Four of these heifers have dropped calves this spring, of which 

 two are bulls. 



The accompanying cut of a distinguished Devon cow now in 

 my herd, will well show what a fat Devon cow can be. 

 This Devon was got by Mr. Dibble's imported Devon bull, bred 

 in England by Mr. Davy, of Flitton Barton, and imported 1850 ; 

 her dam was bred by the Hon. Rufus King, and got by his im- 

 ported Devon bull, and out of one of his imported Devon cows. 

 The Earl of Leicester, sent these Devons out to Mr. King, in 

 1819. 



The cow represented in the picture, was shown by me at the 

 show of the New- York State Agricultural Society, in 1849, at 

 Syracuse, and won the first prize for Devon cows. The portrait 

 was taken when she had been dry eight months, and when she 

 was very fat. She is remarkable in her breeding, producing 

 heifer calves always, of which she has now- had six. 



The Devons I have imported, derived as they are, from the 

 best and purest sources, must be of service in the breeding of 

 Devons in America. 



AMBROSE STEVENS. 



