IMPORTERS AND IMPORTATIONS. 



As early as 1822, or thereabout, we find record of 1822 

 the introduction to America of this useful breed. 

 In that year a bull and a cow are said to have been 

 brought from Great Britain to New York by Mr. 

 Henry W. Hills, and sent to the farm of Mr. Heze- 

 kiah Hills, at Windsor, Conn. The cow was after- 

 wards sold to Joseph Morgan, of Hartford, and the 

 bull to Elihu Wolcott, of East Windsor Hill. Two 

 of the heifers, called Flora Hills and Fanny Hills, 

 were sold to Mr. Henry Watson, of East Windsor, 

 " which produced several calves from his Short-horn 

 bull. Wye Comet." These calves, half Short-horn 

 and half Ayrshire, were small animals but very fine, 

 and several of them " were recorded as Short-horns, 

 in the American Hei'd Book." ' 



According to the " Turf, Field, and Farm," ^ the 1828 

 Ayrshires were first introduced into this country in 

 1828. In 1831 we find note of a full-blood Ayrshire 

 cow being in the possession of a Dr. White, ol 1831 

 Dutchess County, N. Y. ; this cow was crossed with 

 a Durham bull about this time, and then bred in, 



1 Samuel Bartlett, in *' Homestead," quoted in Rept. Conn. Board of Agricul- 

 ture, 1867, p. 161. 



' Quoted in Nat. Live Stock Journ., May, 1871, p. 303. 



