New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-13
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IMPORTANT To FARMERS
BREEDS OF DOMESTIC CATTLE rr
NATIVE sTOcK OF THE UNITED STATS >,
CENTRAL.
IS ost Ps3sst

shsy. tea. ths o-igi-a LcSisA i1p9..sSc,, :,
cattle TITO tie Uri.et Ss.es, q. az esr,y ,ats -.
si.tsd Of Dsvorssire,. sid, fers,rs H.r.tnl,.,.
Vi,.hiles. which are g. notifications Of ia.
race of o, si1al Brltsh u.di'ehor7,, 70 The srs
ua,o or 70 the Virginia setslems ,ts arr OF D.,,.
.biss Herefoies, wiltshire probsbly So,..r.,
sdcera:nly Sutfolks, al oldLsicestes.si~,t tan.
oor.hys,l. OF TO ths New Er yisrd se.ien.ot A.,
ttst from these msitly, Gose the o,;ri-I nu,
stock OF tee United States. TIE Spaa:,s sta,
introduced far to the souihSsrd, hsre il ,..n,
kf. 10 trace whatever of their b.eed il Il. -,.,.
ofNor.hern America at leas. north Of Te.u. r..
Portuguese cattle have lef. 10 trace wh,s.vsr; car
have the Nornsn French cattle, brought ersx
thar AM English importation wha.so.ver ;a.o Nan
Scotia ana Canada, Left any trace beyond tie Ina
Of those provinces, in which the Norman eSua.
clearly the type Of the family, as is TIE Devaen
Of the conmon farm stock of the United Ststsa
We have pointed on. also Tat 81 .hs tusa
Francis II gginson's importation into MasscasRsa
the long horn. were certainly not the comnec s4A
Of Le.cestt.sbre, if they were not sctuaiy rtknGH
there The short.horns in England at tlas tNs
far as genera, scQuaintsrce throughout the sor,t7
is concerned, were utterly an unknown rscsHl
except in q remote, wild and singularly uncTl.l1
corner Of the islard, had NO existence. I: gNy
rot be too much TO say that no Norfolk, Srd,i
Csmbridseshire, Hunting'On'hire, SUSSEX. Ds,s.
sbire Somersetshire, Wht,hire or Cornish z.o bal
ever seen or heard tel Of s short-hOrr. They sd
l. - all -.
Erclsnd until about the middle Of the last csusr
WHEN large diaries began to be kept IN the mae.
date ycirity Of London, for TIE supply Of tie u<
tropoi:s, AID when tie old urmprOyei YoriiNc,
short horned COW became known 10 tie ds.fyrS
as prodisious milk yielder though 6u: PIX
handler ard Indifferent beef-msker.
In fact q. this time e7eTy county bad fec t,
most part its own local breed, aud tie inhabisrs
of that county, Who could SCARCE unde.s.aad 4,
dialect spoken in the next, knew notbing Of ry
{ ther than their OWE local breed.
The general stock of England at TIA. MnA
was, more or ls,s, all middle horns, whiA Va.
the old British breed, eIceptif the Suaolks VIA
seem to have been a distinct family from . w
remote date, tie long horns of Craven AMI Il.
shOit.hons of Teeswatsr and Holdemsn, wtA
were 1either Of them known, much less Of m,
Iepute, in the South Of England previous to IA,
beginning of tie following century. !. maybe,
and probably is, the case that tie midiLe.hors Of
Lecestersbirs shd Lincolnshire had a. Al esry
date begun to tend to IA unusual expNn Of slu
lsterslly, especially smong the oxen; but sas peca
lar long horns, with a horn having downward
ard inv ard sweep, and having most cIsrsordraJ
tendencies to foim pure fat, to tae detnst
tion Of the muscle and tie utter loss Of .as mix
with, comparatively speaking, hmdly any A
were not known even in England, and couAHn
possibility have had any thing to do with the ferns
ton of any Of tie early American families ofcs:ss.
II appears, however, that the frat importation X
neat cattle into the State Of New-York WAS usls
by the Dutch West India Company in 1895, "csu.
"prisiDg 1903 animals, consisting Of horses snt cat.
/" tie for breeding, and as many shesp and hoyx
" vas thought necessary
Now these cattle were, unquestionsby. Gor-
horns. Paul Potter, the celebrated F1enish csttis.
painter, vas born in 1925; aid bis Dutch bulls, Of
which he has paintd scores and hundreds, us a.
most Invariably perfect short hOrns and very msaJa
them would pass for Durhams Of the most improved
and fashionable breed. Short.horns, then vn
empbAtcally the fayorite and cra,k cstto Of Hd
lsnd at the very period when this InPo''
tatiOn WA made into the New-NetherArdi
and this, alone, would be nearly reason enorsa
for Judging that the importation "" OF shortAorr''
Beside this, We have seen before in our articles %
short-horns, that when inquiry first began 70 aris
in lhe middle Of the eighteenth century, Tn'ns
this singular short horned breed could have Arse
IN one email corner Of England, which lad ne'H
been heard of or the Ike oft seen in any o!nsT %"
ofthe island. while it was well knowntO exist oans
north. eastern continent of Europe, from JaaAi
and Holstein downward 10 the Flemish conaaes&
Frarce-a hypothesis was started that tho sao''
horns bad been imported into England FROM HS'
land between the years l740 ard 1850. Tbs eS
has been utterly confuted BY the discovery Oh t'
fact that the importation Of foreign cattle into 10
gland was utterly prohibited by act Of Psrismea'
between the years 1866 and l54I; and bT To
proving of tie further fact, shown by To
records Of all the Cust)m- Houses between LOntt'
aud Berwick-upOn-T@eed, On the eastern coast
England, that no Dutch cattle whatever was in
ported into the island between 1866 and 1872.
This while it establishes the antiquity of the s1'F
horned race in Teeswater and Holdernsss proves
also that it WAS utterly an unknown race, IN fh'
South Of England, until the date Of ito improve
rnar I'd <ha<M ka,h ~, .s-A
above. is wholly in error, when he beGVes THAI 70
Puritars, Of the Last and West Of EngiAnd-M
there are none, or next to none, in the North "a
Northwest-Tere acquainted with the merits IN
sho,t-hoIns; or that the Yorkshire COW was san
acknoyled Is distinct animal, admitted 10 b. ~
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