LECTURE NO. 20. 



SUSSEX CATTLE THEIR ORIGIN AND HISTORY, 



CHARACTERISTICS AND PRINCIPAL POINTS. 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY. 



I. Some obscurity hangs over the origin of 

 this breed, but there are good reasons for believing 

 that they are closely associated in ancestry with 

 the Devons. 



(1) Their breeding in England is largely confined to the 

 counties of Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire, and 



(2) It is only recently that they have been exported to 

 Other countries. 



II. It is only within a comparatively limited 

 period that the improvement of the breed has 

 received marked attention. 



(1) Formerly the animals of both sexes were used for 

 plowing and other farm work, but now they are bred mainly 

 for beef. 



(2) Of late years they have scored well at the Smithfield 

 Show at London, and also to some extent at the Fat Stock 

 Show in Chicago. 



(3) The calves are generally reared on the dams, usually 

 getting only a part of the milk at first, and afterwards the 

 wh >le of it. 



(4) The Sussex Herd Book was established in England 

 in 1860. 



III. Sussex cattle in other countries. 



(1) They were imported to the United States by Overton 

 Lea of Nashville, Tenn., in 1884. 



(2) In 1891 a small importation was made into Canada 

 by the Ontario Experiment Station at Guelph, but some speci- 

 mens of the breed had been brought into the country at an 

 earlier period, although they were eventually taken to the 

 United States. 



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