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districts — especially where cheese is the product — they arc still 

 retained and highly esteemed, their advocates contending that 

 no breed can surpass them for this object. At the Show of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society at Warwick, in July last, 1 saw 

 several very fine specimens of this breed. They were generally 

 well shaped, excellent handlers, with indications of being good 

 milkers. This remark would also apply to specimens of the 

 breed seen on various farms in England. They are very hardy, 

 for so large a breed, and make up in longevity what they lack 

 in early maturity. 



The Long-horns have formerly been introduced into different 

 sections of this country, but not in large numbers, and there 

 are few instances where the breed has been kept pure. The 

 blood was diffused to some extent in the best grazing portions 

 of Kentucky and Ohio, and the cattle of those sections, although 

 the Short-horn blood generally predominates, still often show, 

 by the fineness of the shoulder and rising neck, the effect of the 

 Long-horn cross. In Maine, the first course in the production 

 of the large and strong oxen for which some parts of that State 

 have been noted, was a cross with Long-horn bulls introduced 

 by Mr. Vaughn, nearly seventy years ago; and in Massachu- 

 setts, the same stock obtained considerable notoriety through 

 an animal presented by Mr. Vaughan to Governor Gore, his 

 descendants being called " the Gore breed." 



The Suffolk breed is without horns. It was formerly some- 

 what noted for dairy properties, but is not extensively kept at 

 the present time. It is not absolutely known that any of this 

 breed have ever been imported into this part of the country ; 

 but the polled or hornless cattle, which were formerly quite 

 common here, bear more resemblance to the Suffolks than to 

 any other breed. They certainly have no claim to the title of 

 Galloway, which is sometimes applied to them, being different 

 in color, (the Galloways are almost invariably black,) shape 

 and characteristics. Near the close of the last century, Joseph 

 Russell, Esq., of Boston, imported from England several horn- 

 less cattle, which the late Colonel Jaques, who was well 

 acquainted with them, believed to be of the Suffolk breed. 

 They were kept in Chelsea, and some of the descendants of the 

 herd are now in the possession of Benjamin Shurtleff, Esq., of 

 North Chelsea. A cow was also brought to this country from 



