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boundary, where black and white Dutch cattle are found. The 

 word Friesian is derived from Friesland province, Holland, and 

 this is the name the breed should go by in America, as it does 

 in Holland, for no such breed name as Holstein-Friesian is used 

 in the latter country. In view of the fact that all the cattle 

 imported to America from Holland are essentially the same, the 

 breeders and importers finally came together and united their 

 interests and agreed to call the breed Holstein-Friesian. If the 

 word Holstein could by agreement be discarded, it would give a 

 more appropriate and simpler name. 



The introduction of the Holstein-Friesian to America is unques- 

 tionably associated with the early Dutch settlers of New York. 



FIG. 1 14. A view on the meadows of Holland near Rotterdam 

 Photograph by the author 



Black or black and white cattle for two centuries have been owned 

 in New England and the east, where they have been known as 

 Dutch cattle. Late in the seventeenth century, when the Mohawk 

 Valley of New York was settled by the Dutch, they probably 

 brought cattle with them from Holland. In 1795 the Holland 

 Land Company sent two bulls and six cows to John Lincklaen 

 of Cazenovia, New York, who was an agent in charge of lands of 

 the company there. Descriptions would indicate these to be much 

 of the type of to-day. In 18 10 a bull and two cows were imported 

 by Consul William Jarvis and taken to his farm at Weathersfield, 

 Vermont. About 1825 Herman Le Roy made an importation, part 

 being taken to the Genesee Valley, New York, and the rest kept 



