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NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. 



Oct. 



color, shape and characteristics from the Gal' 

 loways; which are also "polled" or hornless, 

 aad almost invariably black. 



Col. Stone of Dedham, Mass., who is en- 

 deavoring to preserve and perpetuate in its pu- 

 rity, as far as possible, this Jamestown stock, 

 says that as far as he knows, the original cow 

 never had but one heifer calf. A bull called 

 "Jamestown" from this cow, by "Beverly," a 

 thorough bred Jersey, (out of "Flora" by the 

 "First Prize Bull," at the Royal agricultural 

 Show in Jersey,) has left a progeny which ap- 

 pears to possess superior dairy properties. 

 Nearly all the descendants of the cow ' 'James- 

 town" are without horns, showing the remark- 

 able strength of the Suffolk strain. 



In 18G7, *he first premium of the "Wilder 

 Cup" was awarded by the Norfolk County 

 Agricultural Society to J. W. Gay, of West 

 Dedham, for his superior herd of fifteen milch 

 cows, eleven of which were Jamestowns. 



In closing his statement to Mr. Cheever, 

 Col. Stone says : — 



"You know the strong prejudice I have in 

 favor of this stock, and you have seen some 

 good specimens of the same. They possess 

 qualities which I consider very valuable in a 

 dairy stock. They are very gentle, I never 

 having known a vicious animal, unless they 

 were too strongly crossed with the Jersey. 

 When 'Jamestown' was five years old, a four 

 year old boy could manage him in safety ; he 

 was woi'ked in harness and perfectly handy. 

 They are perfectly hardy, good feeders, and 

 hold out in their milk remarkably, which I 

 consider the great reeommendatinn. I know 

 of several that give milk the year round. '''' 



The cow "Flora," mentioned in the above 

 account as the grandam, on the Jersey side, 

 of the bull "Jamestown," was imported by 

 Mr. Motley, and proved one of the most re- 

 markable of that celebrated ftock, having 

 made sixteen pounds of butter a week. 



We think it probable, therefore, that Mr. 

 Haskell's cattle belong to the Jamestown 

 %tock, and we hope that the foregoing will be 

 a satisfactory answer to his inquiries. 



But is this all? If the anticipations of our 

 Norfolk friends shall be realized as to the 

 value of this .«tock, may we not recognize in 

 the history of this "Suifolk heifer," — a mere 

 token of the gratitude of a suffering people, — 

 "a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew 



them as we will," — a divinity that has said, 

 "Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou 

 shalt find it after many days ?" 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



The American Devon Herd Book, published under 

 the dire>tion of ihe Association of Breeders ofTlor- 

 ough-breil Neat St'icb. Edited by Horace Miil' Ses- 

 sions, South Wil'.raham, H.impdin Oountv, Maps. 

 Springfield Mass., 8- Bowles & Co. 1868. Price 

 $12 (0 for first vol. and $2-50 for secotid, cr, bound tp- 

 ge'.her, $4 50, post paid. Pages 144 and 148. 



The addition of these two volumes, just received, 

 makes our library quite complete in the Devon 

 department, as we had previously on our shelves 

 the first and second vplurnes by Davy and the 

 third volume by Sanford Howard, now Secretary 

 of the Michigan State Board of Agriculture. Mr. 

 Sessions having secured the few copies of Davy's 

 English Devon Herd Book in this country' offers 

 them, bound together, for $4 50. In the first vol- 

 ume of Mr. Sessions' American Devon Herd Book, 

 published' in 1863, fifteen States were represented 

 by fifty-three different breeders, with the pedigrees 

 of 151 bulls and 350 cows, making in all 501 ani- 

 mals, all owned in America. The second volume, 

 published in 1868, contains the pedigrees of '252 

 bulls and 418 cows — 670 in all — from 150 breeders 

 and o^vners, residing in 21 States, and some in the 

 British Provinces, 



« In consequence of the prohibition by the general 

 government of the importation of cattle as a pre- 

 cautionaiy measure against the introduction of 

 the plague so fatal in England, no Devons have 

 been imported into this country since the publica- 

 tion of Mr. Sessions' first volume ; nor is it deemed 

 necessary to do so, as he says it is the testimony 

 of those who have visited the best herds in Eng- 

 land, that we need not go abroad to obtain animals 

 equal in every point of excellence to the best that 

 can be found in England. 



We do not feel competent to pass a critical judg- 

 ment upon the execution of the difficult task which 

 the editor has imdertaken and accomplished. So 

 favorably, however, was his first volume received 

 by the breeders and owners of thorough-bred 

 Devons, that the editor remarks, "We only hope 

 that the second volume will meet with the same 

 favor as the first, and be worthy of the title.of the 

 American Devon Herd Book, and receive the uni- 

 versal patronage of the Devon breeders of Amer- 

 ica. The second volume is larger, and with the 

 experience gained in the preparation of the first 

 volume, we cannot doubt that the editor has pro- 

 duced a work at least proportionally more perfect 

 and valuable, and we need only inform the breed- 

 ers of this favorite race of cattle, that the second 

 volume of the American Devon Herd Book is 

 ready for delivery. 



Notice is also given that the third volume will 

 be pul)lished in three or four j'cars, or as soon as 

 a suflicicnt numl)er of pedigrees arc received to 

 warrant its publication. 



