60 AMERICAN CATTLK. 



their food with more ease, they bear the climate well, are more 

 free from diseases than many others. On our high lands and 

 mountain ranges, with short grasses, sometimes not easy of 

 access to heavier cattle, they must prove profitable graziers, and 

 as a beef producing animal will answer a valuable purpose where 

 others would fail. 



DEVONS IN THE UNITED STATES. 



It is a subject of regret that our accounts of the earlier intro- 

 duction of these cattle to this country are so meager. There is 

 little doubt, from the appearance of many of the New England 

 cattle in the last and present centuries, that some Devons, in 

 their purity, were early brought into Massachusetts. Traditional 

 tales of their neat limbed, sprightly, red, high-horned cattle, have 

 existed, and that they sprung from a Devon cross is beyond a 

 question. But we have no particular published records of these 

 importations until the year 1817, when Messrs. Caton & Pat- 

 terson, merchants of Baltimore, Maryland, received several of 

 them from "Mr. Coke, of Holkham." 



These, a few years afterwards, fell into the hands of Mr. Geo. 

 Patterson, (already noticed,) son of one of the importing partners, 

 who retains their descendants to the present time. This stock 

 has been largely multiplied, and spread through various parts of 

 the country. 



A year later 1818 Rufus King, the distinguished statesman, 

 of Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y., imported a few animals from 

 Mr. Coke's herd. 



Not long after the Caton & Patterson stock came over, Mr. 

 Henry Thompson made an importation of a few Devons into 

 Baltimore. There may have been some few other importations 

 into Boston, or other ports, about the same time, or a little later 

 than these, but we have no particular accounts of them. 



About the year 1835-G, an English farmer named Vernon, 



