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produced 5,782 quarts of milk, and 685 lbs. of butter. This cow 

 was bred in Lewes, Sussex. We have never heard or seen it al- 

 leged by any one that this cow was descended from any of the 

 great breeds which those of the present day are descended, nor 

 do we believe she was ; these breeds had not attained their great- 

 est celebrity until some years after 18U0. Besides, in her histo- 

 ry, it is expressly said that she was of the Sussex breed, and all 

 the English agricultural writers that we have seen and who speak 

 on the subject, say that the Sussex breed were never famous for 

 milkers, but were considered good fatteners. Mr. Colman thinks 

 the old stock of New-England must be ot the JVorth Devo7i,as many 

 of them possess points resembling tliat race, and have been fre- 

 quently called American Devons. The most valuable working oxen 

 are chieily of this breed, and which also contribute materially to 

 the display of beef in the New- York, Philadelphia and Boston 

 markets. " The prevailing color of the New-England cattle is 

 deep red. The oxen are remarkable for their docility, strength, 

 quickness, and power of endurance ; the cows are fair milkers, 

 and both are hardy and fatten readily." In oxen we think we 

 fully equal our English friends in form and appearance, and go 

 ahead of them far in disciplining these animals to the yoke and 

 fitting them in a short time for performing every kind of hard 

 labor in husbandry in the best manner. A good pair of these or 

 a number of yokes together, and driven and managed by one who 

 knows them, and they him, will travel faster with a heavier load 

 without fatigue, and at considerably less expense, than any 

 horses. Such is their discipline and steadiness of character that 

 they will exert tlieir strength longer and in unison ; single pairs, 

 or almost any number of pairs, step more uniformly every way, 

 back and forward, not thrown out of line or in the least confusion, 

 no more than a regiment of the best drilled troops. Mr. Colman 

 has seen, a few years since, nearly three hundred yoke of these 

 together in Connecticut, for exhibition at a fair, remarkable for 

 their uniform color, (red,) symmetry of form, size, and every 

 mark of strength and hardiness. Such a race, we maintain, could 

 not have had a mean or common origin ; they have existed more 

 or less for a 150 years, as tradition and other records will show, 

 improved, no doubt, much in its progress down to the present 

 day. Such a race too must have contained among it at different 



