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described by one of the early settlers of that village, " the cows 

 were of the size of oxen, their colors clear black and white in 

 large patches ; very handsome bodies and straight limbed ; 

 horns middling in size but gracefully set ; their necks were 

 seemingly too slender to carry their heads." In 1810 a bull and 

 two cows were imported by Consul William Jarvis and taken to 

 his farm at Weathersfield, Vermont. Between the years 1820 and 

 1825 Herman LeRoy, a New York City merchant, imported some 



FIG. 1 53. The Kuperus herd near Leeuwarden, Holland. One of the famous Dutch 

 herds. From photograph by the author 



cattle from Holland, which he placed on a farm near New York 

 City, and later, between 1827 and 1829, some of them were sent 

 to the farm of his son, Edward A. Le Roy, in the Genesee valley in 

 New York. Lewis F. Allen states 1 that he saw these cattle in 1 833, 

 and that " they were large, well-spread cattle, black and white in 

 color, and remarkable for their uncommon yield of milk." These 

 LeRoy cattle were later crossed with Shorthorns, and the pure 

 breed thus lost. The first importation of importance, having the 

 maintenance of pure blood lines in mind, was that of Mr. Chenery, 

 who reports as follows on his introduction of these cattle 2 : 



1 American Cattle (1879), P- l68 - 



e A Private Holstein or Dutch Herd Book, 3d ed., 1869. 



