New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-18
AGRICULTURAL.
pprrns OF DOMESTIC CATTLE....xvH

to,,. Of DevOpshire, Heref0rdshIe sIu ou''0A'
-,n1,ot N some particular localities, as IN LIMOS
>, The tncs. in New York New-Jersey ano'
or,bsbIy. Pennsylvania, BY the Datco, as Also per
ts,. io Delaware AID Western Jefsey by Tie
swe6es. c. rtsn foreign breeds have been INTRO
5ucet. B4s'oe these, there have been rom Eo-
cla15 upolted ct very remote dates the olo Le'ot'
tertuep which would seem to have been req
rnisdLe borp, with tendency TO form longer horns
tb,, i, ususl in that fauIly and slso the old Su)k
dina famous long before the Introduction OF TIE
Galloway cross for their milking properties, which
they stu retain, although entirely altered In form
ard color by nteI eIbreeding with the horniess OF
poled cattle described above.
From ttese original stocks, more or less inter-
mixed hsye arisen al the native stocks Of America
in The first instance and since importaslons OF fne
steel from all parts Of England have been con-
stsn.y reso,ted 70 for the improvement Of the
rssiye breeds, without much, if any method or
soif,ce, ard entirely without the preservation Of
records, until very recent period, it follows tnat
the cattle Of the Ordinary American stock are nov,
a. is well put by Mr. Alanson Nash in the paper
before referred TO, MIXTURE of mi1tures and this
ceriaii j. more particularly the case Of the New
Epslsuo than Of the Southern types Of cattle. The
gentlemen 90 often quoted informs us that, beside
the enil Norfolk and Deyonshire stock mentioned
above, ss imported by the first Puritans, the inhsb
tsnts Of Salem are descendants Of Dorsetshire set
tiers, VITO would, Of sourse, introduce Desons;
that those Of The town of ROwley are descendants
Of OfY0kshire colonists, who came from England in
1888, bringing with them the old Yorkshres and
the Old .hort-horps; that the people of Lynn,
Mass., came from Lincolnshire, bringing with them
TIE CID Lincolnshire cattle; and that, Lastly, the
people Of many Of the towns of Connecticut came
from Kent and Surrey, By way of the Bristol
Chsnel, bringing with them cattle from Sussex
aaa Hereford, and. above all, Devous in great num-
ber-, Of which last breed, he tells us, more are
fourc pure in Connecticut than in any other part
OF New England.
We wish that it had been stated in the memoir
mere distinctly, whether the cattle imported By vari-
ous settlers are hnorn from records, to have been
resIectiyely Yorksbires, LnconshTes, &C., or
whether they are only surmsed to be such, from
the fact that the settlers themselves came from
those counties. If the former, nothing of course is
to be said; if the latter, think as we have OBJ
served before that too much stress is laid On the
faot Of the counties from which the early settlers
came, unless it can be shown that they took ship
from those counties direct since, especially in the
then state of roads, conveyances and communca-
tOps il England, it is scarcely credible that York
shue, or even Lincolnshire settlers would have
driven heir cattle several hundred miles, or half the
length Of England, to their ports of embarkation.
Again, without pretending to impugn the correct
less Of the statement that the town of Lynn WAS
originally settled by men of Lincolnshire, we should
have desired to the authority; since the town Of
Lynn s itself in Norfolk, on the Wash, not far re-
moved il is true from Lincolnshire, so that both
Lincolnshire men and cattle may easily have come
htheI from that place; yet, IL certainly was the
gene custom ofthe early settlers to name their new
homes after those which they had left, the proba-
bilty, in the Absence of direct fact, is in favor Of
,he presumption that the settlers of Lynn were
from Norfolk, in which that town was situated.
How ever this may have been, We are sure that
Mr. Nash lays too much stress on these localities,
IS proving the species of cattle imported from
them at that early day. Lincolnshire was supplied
with lor g-borns it is certain, from the small and
remote district n Craven on the opposite coast of
The island, ard far TO tae north of England. TDey
gained ground but gradually and slowly, and the
southern coasts Of Lincolnshire, opposite to Nor
folk would have been about the last place they
would have reached, as it is in fact, the extreme
southern INIT of their district in England. There
is in fact, no reason for believing, but rather the
reverse, that there were long-hOrns in Lincoln
shire at the period of the embsrka.on of the Pill
grius.
Now, however, there has grown up, aud within
lew years grewn into great consideration, Justly,
peculiar breed of oxen known as the red cattle of
New Er gland" Their characteristic is first their
cclor, which, being pure red, decidedly negatives
the probability if not the possibility, OF any short
horned cross; since white, either pure or spotted
with clear bood-Ied, is as has been demonstrated
above, an original shOrt-horn color, derived, not
from the ChilliDgham or Ca3zow-park wild cattle,
with which il is no. probable that they were ever
crossed, but from the original, imported Danish
stock brought into Eogsnd prior TO the Norman
invasion This white color would indubitsbly
bsek out il il existed dormant in the red cattle of
New En- gland, while the form Of the Yorkshire
horn would unmistakably show itself In any cross
breed of which the short horns formed constituent
hart. From a very early date these red cattle have
existed in New. England, but they have been re-
Gently greatly improved and have assumed new
eharacteristcs They were formerly, we under
stand, Of the light red color peculiar to the Sussex
| cstne-had their characteristic horn, somewhat
cQaser sDd lees tapering than that OF the Devons,