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bull without spots, not one in twenty of his calves will have 

 them. Horses are much more liable to marks than cattle. 



Thomas Bell, of Morrisania — A full blooded creature must have 

 the right color. I saw white spots on the Devons thirty-five 

 years ago. My finest Devon cow had the white spot. I have 

 just sold out my entire stock. I speak from my own experience. 

 I am not now interested in any stock whatever. I am going to 

 England in a few days, and I mean to look about there and 

 bring over a new lot if I like them. I prefer the Durhams. 

 Those that are pure have red and white spots on them, but not 

 be brindled. The Devon breed is good and bad, but as to milk- 

 ing qualities there is no comparison besween them and the Dur- 

 hams. I have crossed the best native cow with the best Dui'ham 

 bull and produced my best milkers. I do not think that we can 

 introduce any breed as good as the Durham as to milk. In the 

 English dairy, nine quarts is an average per animal. I had fifty 

 head in my dairy, graded stock, the milk average has been over 

 nine quarts. Ten of my graded were equal to fifteen of the 

 general run. My neighbor, Bathgate, says so. We cannot make 

 our native stock over 500 of beef, while the graded take on 700 

 to 800, and better beef and better price too. Devons are spoken 

 of as very superior working cattle. I have had half Duiliam 

 and natives, that had the quick-step, and looked upon them as 

 being superior. Worked six years, ploughed as much as a pair 

 of horses, and as beef gave 1200 pounds a-piece. I never knew 

 a native cow to be a great milker, but my cow, Old Judge, who, 

 in eleven years, gave me eleven months in the year, an average 

 of twelve quarts' a day, which I sold at four cents a quart ! She liad 

 belonged to Judge Van Buren, who sent her to market, and to 

 be broke, for she wanted it, being said to be unmanageable. I 

 broke her. 



Mr. Nash — Tell us how? 



Mr. Bell— I tied up her right fore-leg. She kicked no more. 

 She gave me eleven calves. 



Mr. Meigs said that the peculiar red stock of New-England 

 cattle was descended from the Red Devons brought over by the 

 first settlerSj many of whom, naturally enough came from Devon- 



