158 IMPORTATIONS. 



with her descendants, for a dozen or fifteen years at 

 least. 3 

 1837 lu 1837, their merits at home having become more 

 widely known, we learn of two importations : the 

 one of Mr. J. P. Gushing, of Watertown ; the other 

 by the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of 

 Agriculture. 



Mr. Cushing's importation was made in the spring, 

 and consisted of four cows, — Flora, Juno, Venus, 

 and Cora.'* Three heifers appear to have been im- 

 ported in their dams,^ ^"* ^ and perhaps a buU.^ Some 

 dozen years later Mr. Gushing presented one of his 

 bulls to the Worcester Go. Agricultural Society.'' 



During this year arrived the first importation of 

 the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Ag- 

 riculture, consisting of a bull and three cows, which 

 were all in calf when they arrived. The bull was 

 sent to the western part of the State, and was kept 

 near Pittsfield.^ One of the cows was placed in the 

 care of Hon. P. C. Brooks, in Medford ; another in 

 the care of Hon. Daniel Webster, at Marshfield ; and 

 the third of Elias Phinney, of Lexington. This 

 last, 18 years old, was still living in 1847. ^ 



In 1845 this Society made its second importation, 

 consisting of a bull. Prince Albert, and four cows, 

 Flora McDonald, Jennie Deans, Milly, and Gharlotte. 

 These animals were selected by Mr. Alexander Brick- 



a U. S. Pat. Off. Reports, 1861, p. 91. Note. 

 * Farmers' Lib iii, 304. 

 t Capt. Randall's Ms. Herd Book. 

 « A. H. B., B. 53, 702 ; C. 6B1, 732. 

 ■• Ag. of Mass. 1853,311. 



•U S.Dept. Ag. Rt-pt. 1883, p. 197. Cultivator, Feb. 1848, p. 42. 

 Farmers'^Ub. ill, 3U4. 



