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the large eastern cities grew and butter, cheese and 

 milk came into larger demand and the opening up of 

 the Middle West transferred the production of meat 

 animals to that region, the type of cattle m New York 

 changed from tlie beef to the milk strain. The dom- 

 inant dairy breed, the Holstein, first brought in by 

 the early Dutch, began to attract popular attention 

 about 1867 to 1875 when there were large importa- 

 tions from Holland. In the earlier days the Devon 

 cattle were introduced into Westchester County and 

 met with much fa\'or. Dutch belted cattle were first 

 imported to America by D. H. Haight, of Goshen, 

 in 1838. 



The last available detailed summary of the rela- 

 tive numbers of pure blooded animals of the different 

 breeds was in 1910. At that time, so far as the 

 recorded lierds go, 2.9 per cent of all dairy animals 

 were of pure breeding. Undoubtedly, many pure 

 blooded animals were not recorded. In 1918 a rough 

 census of dairy cows showed that approximately 6 

 per cent were of pure breeding. The total is un- 

 (piestionably still much below 10 per cent. The total 

 number of pure blooded animals reported in 1910 was 

 44,423. Of this number, the Holstein formed 72.2 

 per cent, the Jerseys 14.5, the Guernseys 6.5, and the 

 Ayrsliires 4.6, thereby leaving only 2.2 per cent to 

 be distributed among the other breeds. The average 

 number of pure blooded cattle to an owner was 12.1, 

 being largest for the Jersey owners, 18 animals; for 

 the Guernseys owners, it was 12.2 animals and for the 

 Holstein 11.4. On the other hand, observation in- 



