AMERICAN CATTLE. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE CLIMATES AND SOILS OF NORTH AMERICA, AS ADAPTED TO 

 THE PRODUCTION OF NEAT CATTLE. 



IN the diversities of climate, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence on 

 the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the 

 Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific on the west, with 

 the various elevations and depressions of the surfaces of country 

 between, we have a range of temperature, the most favorable to 

 the production and sustenance of neat cattle in all their best known 

 varieties, probably, on the globe. Eminently healthful to those 

 foreign breeds inhabiting like climates at home, they have been 

 as successfully bred here, where introduced, with less tendencies 

 to those diseases which vex them there, while our soils produce 

 herbage attractive to their appetites, and favorable to the best 

 development of their natures. 



From. the Mediterranean on the south, to the Baltic on the 

 north ; from the mountains of the upper Rhine in Germany and 

 Switzerland, to the western coasts of Ireland, Normandy and 

 Spain, the cattle of Europe have crossed the ocean, to find their 

 homes in the congenial climates and soils of America, with the 

 emigrating people, who reared them in their native lands. 



