40 BOAED OF AGRICULTUEE. 



Finall}', we can point to the excellent qualities of the products, 

 milk, meat, butter and cheese. Our cattle belong to the best and 

 most profitable of all known breeds and are to be preferred to all 

 others, because these qualities are all united in one and the same 

 individual specimen ; so that a young heifer can be made equally 

 well a valuable milch cow and a fat heavy animal, as after being 

 milked she has the faculty of becoming weighty if rationally 

 treated. 



These two points of excellence, large milk producing and easy 

 fattening qualities, united in the same animal, are more common 

 than is generally known, and only an ill-advised self-interest would 

 be able to render it less so by a too one-sided way of breeding, 

 which, we hope, will be guarded against, in which case our cattle 

 will not only retain these valuable properties, but they may be made 

 more productive still. 



The first importations of Holland cattle undoubtedly came 

 to America with the early Holhind settlers, and the effect of 

 their superior dairy qualities has benefited many a generation 

 down to the present day. Old farmers, in speaking of some 

 famous milker of forty years ago, are very apt to say, " She 

 was a real good, old-fashioned Dutch cow." The first accu- 

 rate description of an importation of them is found in the 

 Diary of Samuel S. Forman, one of the first who settled in 

 Cazenovia in 1793. He describes this importation, sent out 

 to John Lincklean, Agent of the Holland Land Company, at 

 Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y., in 1795. The descrip- 

 tion so well fits the Holstein of to-day, we give it verbatim : 

 "About this time [1795 J the Holland Land Compan}^ sent 

 to Mr. Lincklean eight head of Dutch cattle, six of which 

 were cows. The first winter after their arrival in New York 

 I think they were kept in Bergen, in Jersey. The cows were 

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

 not spotted, but large patches of the two colors ; very hand- 

 some bodies and straight limbs ; horns middling size, but 

 gracefully set ; their necks were seemingly too slender to 

 carry their heads ; their disposition mild and docile. For 

 some reason or other they did not do well and entirely ran 

 out. Some supposed that the country was too new, the 

 pasturage different from what they had been accustomed to. 

 The company went to an enormous expense with these 



