. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . ock, through the influence of pure blood of the best foreign breeds;and the time has not yet arrived when a drop of it can be spared. And it is tobe hoped that some American Bakewell or Colling may arise, and do for ournative cattle—certainly they have been bred long enough here to have ac-quired American characteristics—what they did for the long horns and shorthorns of England; but such a work cannot be expected till we have made afurther and more universal advance in the direction of improvement in ourhorned cattle. Colonel Jaq
. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . ock, through the influence of pure blood of the best foreign breeds;and the time has not yet arrived when a drop of it can be spared. And it is tobe hoped that some American Bakewell or Colling may arise, and do for ournative cattle—certainly they have been bred long enough here to have ac-quired American characteristics—what they did for the long horns and shorthorns of England; but such a work cannot be expected till we have made afurther and more universal advance in the direction of improvement in ourhorned cattle. Colonel Jaques, of Ten Hills farm, near Boston, Massachusetts,conducted, for several years, experiments of this nature with great success, andit is much to be regretted that they were not continued after his death. Thefollowing is a notice of the shipment made by Mr. Thorne in May, 1S61, fromthe London Agricultural (iazette; Plats XXVIII. &4 p H u ^ 3 o a § 1=1 w ^1 CQ ^ O ^ ^ ^ §5 H —i i—i O *5> u I fe ^ tel fc w 9» 8-. AYRSHIRE CATTLE. 193 ,rThe second Duke of Thorndale has been sold to Messrs. Howard & Robinson for 400gtffneas; the third Duke of Thorndale has been sold to Mr. Macintosh for 300 guineas ; thefourth Duke of Thorndale has been sold to Mr. Hales for 400 guineas ; the Thane of Oxfordhas been sold to Colonel Pennant for 250 guineas; Imperial Oxford has been sold to for 200 guineas; 4th, Lady of Oxford has been sold to Mr. Macintosh for 250 fuineas. These have thus averaged 300 guineas. Besides these, a young bull, Hero ofhomedale, has been sold to Mr. Welch for 200 guineas. These seven animals have thusfetched 2,000 guineas; and Mr. Thome has received the same he gave to English breederssome years ago for their sires, the two Grand Dukes. In the report of the meeting of the Essex society, the third Duke of Thorn-dale and fourth of Lady of Oxford, which were exhibited, but not in competi-tion, were alluded to as constituting a feature of no little attr
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