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he could have made a mistake in this matter. There 

 is no direct proof that the statement is incorrect, 

 but it seems abnost incredible that Mr. Sanford 

 Howard himself, writing on the early eastern Here- 

 fords as late as 1841 to "The Albany Cultivator" 

 should have failed to mention such importation had 

 it actually been made. He had removed to Maine 

 from Massachusetts, as hereinbefore mentioned, and 

 had become superintendent for the Vaughan Bros, 

 in 1830. 



One of the best informed breeders of the present 

 day in the New England states, Mr. J. H. Under- 

 wood, of Kents Hill, Me., writing to the author 

 under date of Oct. 18, 1913, touching this importa- 

 tion, says: 



"For more than sixty years my grandfather lived 

 within sixteen miles of Hallowell, did business in 

 that city continually, and from 1830 to 1860 was in 

 so close touch with cattle interests in Kennebec 

 county that he must have known the Vaughan Bros, 

 and been familiar with their cattle. In the later 

 '40 's and early '50 's Joseph Hall Underwood was 

 specially interested in purebred Herefords and look- 

 ing for breeding stock with which to found a herd. 

 Had he been able to buy such stock of the Vaughan 

 Bros., it seems probable that he would have done 

 so. Furthermore, my father and my uncle, George 

 Underwood, would have been likely to have known 

 about such cattle, had they existed; and they used 

 to talk considerably to me about the early Here- 

 fords in Maine, but never mentioned the Vaughans 

 in this connection. 



"Presumably Mr. Burleigh supposed he was stat- 



