. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN 359 described by one of the early settlers of that village, "the cows were of the size of oxen, their colors clear black and white in large patches; very handsome bodies and straight limbed; horns middling in size but gracefully set; their necks were seemingly too slender to carry their ; In 1810 a bull and two cows were imported by Consul William Jarvis and taken to his farm at Weathersfield, Vermont. Between the years 1820 and 1825 Herman LeRoy, a New York City merchant, imported some. Fig. 153. The Kuperus
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN 359 described by one of the early settlers of that village, "the cows were of the size of oxen, their colors clear black and white in large patches; very handsome bodies and straight limbed; horns middling in size but gracefully set; their necks were seemingly too slender to carry their ; In 1810 a bull and two cows were imported by Consul William Jarvis and taken to his farm at Weathersfield, Vermont. Between the years 1820 and 1825 Herman LeRoy, a New York City merchant, imported some. Fig. 153. The Kuperus herd near Leeuwarden, Holland. Oneof the famous Dutch herds. From photograph by the author cattle from Holland, which he placed on a farm near New York City, and later, between 1827 and 1829, some of them were sent to the farm of his son, Edward A. LeRoy, in the Genesee valley in New York. Lewis F. Allen states ^ that he saw these cattle in 1833, and that " they were large, well-spread cattle, black and white in color, and remarkable for their uncommon yield of ; These LeRoy cattle were later crossed with Shorthorns, and the pure breed thus lost. The first importation of importance, having the maintenance of pure blood lines in mind, was that of Mr. Chenery, who reports as follows on his introduction of these cattle^: 1 American Cattle (1879), P- '6^- ^ A Private Holstein or Dutch Herd Book, 3d ed., 18 Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston, New York, Ginn
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