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Africa, Egypt, Antigua, and perhaps to other British colonies. 

 Whether the breed will become more popular time only can tell. 

 It has not yet been much tried outside of its native home, but 

 it seems to have succeeded there and at the same time to have 

 made a good showing for itself in public competition. 



Fig. 100. The Sussex cow Milkmaid. Photograph from 

 Mr. Overton Lea, Nashville, Tennessee 



The promotion of the Sussex breed first took place in England. 

 Mr. Alfred Heasman of Little Hampton, Sussex, published the 

 first three volumes of a Sussex herdbook, Vol. I commencing 

 with pedigrees from 1855. In 1888 the Sussex Herdbook 

 Society acquired the records. From that time up to 1905 this 

 society has published twenty herdbooks. The American Sussex 

 Cattle Association was organized in 1888, and Vol. I of the 

 herd register is to be issued in 1906. 



