The horse and other live stock . ls were brought for the purposeof improving the old long horned breed. A large race ofcattle had existed for many years on the western shores ofthe continent of Europe. As early as 1633,. they wereimported from Denmark into ISTew England in considerablenumbers, and thus laid the foundation of a valuable stock in this extend-ed along thecoast, it issaid, throughHolland toFrance. Thedairy formed^;^:^^^;^^^^ a prominent A SHOET HORN BULL. braUCll 01 farming at a very early date in Holland, and experience ledto the greatest care in the choice and
The horse and other live stock . ls were brought for the purposeof improving the old long horned breed. A large race ofcattle had existed for many years on the western shores ofthe continent of Europe. As early as 1633,. they wereimported from Denmark into ISTew England in considerablenumbers, and thus laid the foundation of a valuable stock in this extend-ed along thecoast, it issaid, throughHolland toFrance. Thedairy formed^;^:^^^;^^^^ a prominent A SHOET HORN BULL. braUCll 01 farming at a very early date in Holland, and experience ledto the greatest care in the choice and breeding of dairyStock. From these cattle many selections were made tocross over to the counties of York and Durham. Theprevailing color of the large Dutch cattle was black andwhite, beautifully contrasted. The cattle produced by these crosses a century ago wereknown by the name of Dutch. The cows selected forcrossing with the early imported Dutch bulls were generallylong horned, large boned, coarse animals, a fair type of which. 34 CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES. was found in the old Holderness breed of Yorkshire—slowfeeders, strong in the shoulder, defective in the fore quarter,and not very profitable to the butcher, their meat being coarseand uninviting. Their milking qualities were good, surpass-ing those, probably, of the improved short horns. What-ever may be the truth with regard to these crosses, andhowever far they proved effective in creating or laying thefoundation of the modern improved short horns, the resultsof the efforts made in Yorkshire and some of the adjoiningcounties were never so satisfactory to the best judges asthose of the breeders along the Tees, who selected animalswith greater reference to fineness of bone and symmetry ofform, and the animals they bred soon took the lead andexcited great emulation in improvement. Importations of short horns have been frequent and exten-sive Into the United States within the last few years, andthis famous breed is now pr
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