Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1856-02-14
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for the Z Governor and Coin -
Massachusetts Bay ii New # = Vi
among which we're sixty or @ e T. ( \.
and cows. Most Of the lsiy |a A. Ss' = 3 I!l
safe. Owing to the loss III scs k
Indians and wolves. and thes IN
importation and keeping ~ "
first was 50 high as to put ena
the reach Of many colonists NJ
calf, however, soon became clliss
than black one. on account Al
greater probability Of its being tll Wit M
Tor a deer and killed BY the wulvs
l636; when cows sere 50 kig assI
sold from f25to sf3O each. and
for f4O a pair. i quart 81 nes IN 4 & y
fonr eggs could be bought for i psnlS I:
a pound Of butter for 81. aud i Its5lsd
Or Cheshire cheese for sd. ~ ss
The first cattle introduced info IN eN,
Hampshire were from Denmark, prgcHrA
ed by Captain John Mason and i,iis q
sociaies: in about the year 1851 or
to stock their plantations, and 10 become
employed in drawing lumber. These
cattle were of a large size and Of syeE
Iowish color The calves were alISWed
to run with their dams at pleasure /.
Their owners were ambitious tosbeS did,
tinguished by the strength and size taf
their oxen, on which bets aud prizes
were oftenSmade. This breed ofcattle
remained Anre and unmixed near Aga
menticus, in Maine, down to about the
year 1920. In lti45, theythad so muls
tiplied that one hundred oxen belonging
to Mason's plantation, near Portsmouth,, ]
were driven to Charlestown. Massachu7
sets, and there sold for $50 heads
In 1862, the number ofcattle ia Charles
town was four hundred. Ia the inssl I
ory Of Piscataqua and Norridgewoels s
1855, there were two bulls, twenty lofIs
COWS, twenty-five heiters and steers md
ten calves. In 1886, one hundrss MI III
sixty cattle were driven from. ewt6l,.
Massachusetts, to Hartford, tissss
Vt. the enigrants feeding ozs T
on the way. q sss
The 6rst Importation inlt fl VI u
'erland was made fgomt NJ n SsEI
el. II Holland, BY the Y. a lss ssss
India Company !, ii Y Ia (I
llsrs handtsd md thfrss "a - ~ u AM a 1 "
ing 81 horses and Cattle for breed dinT fS,sss .'f
In 1857, an OK in that colony was wofIiIf
from $32 to $50 in 1916, the price Of
q COW was from $40 to $l8 /; a bull
calf, $3 30 il 1850, mich COW, with
herssecond or third calf. was valued al /
$40. Al this period Of settlements, the
West India Company not only furnish
ed each tenant with land, house, barn.
and farming implement and tools, but
four cows, four horses, sheep, and pigs,
Tor the term of six years, at the expira-
ton Of which he was required to return
the number of animals he has received.
The entire increase remained with each
farmer, who was bound to pay yearly
$40 and SO pounds Of butter, rent for
the cleared land. Afterwards the cattle /
belonging to the company were dis
Iributed for some years among those
who had no means 10 purchase stock.
Cattle we're introduced into the settles
ments on the Delaware by the g Swedish
West India Company" from Sweden,
1927. s&e
The 6rst cattle introduced into Caro-
Ina We're brought from England, by
Sayle, in 1870, 10 Old Charls-
ION on the south side Of Ashley river
General Wade Hampton and Colonel
Singleton were both engaged
in importing cattle, as well as horses,
before the revolution
The Indians on the Red River, in
Louisiaaa, possessed cattle as early as
The year 1890.
Cattle were FIRST brought to the Sa-
vannah settlement, in Georgia, by Ogle-
thorpe, ii Others were introduced
into the same colony ID l 735.
In 1850, the best dairy farms in Rhode
Island contained upwards Of one hum
dred cows, annually producing 100 loads
ofhay, and oldl3, 900 pounds Of cheese