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the rich lowlands of France, Belgium, Holland and the western provinces of 

 Germany. It has not become established in Great Britain, nor has it invaded 

 the island of Jersey or of Guernsey, for the simple reason that laws have 

 existed for many years against importations for breeding purposes from the 

 continent. In Jersey and Guernsey such laws have been rigidly enforced for a 

 hundred years or more. While on the other hand no laws have ever existed to 

 prevent the unlimited importation of Jersey and Guernsey cattle or of any 

 other breed to the continent. We refer to these facts simply for the purpose 

 of saying that the same natural laws in relation to soils, climates and markets 

 exist in this country that govern in Europe, and if left to work out the fate of 

 breeds of cattle in this country without artificial influences and barriers the 

 results must eventually be the same. 



Coleinan's Rural World of St. Louis, Mp., in April, 1886, states: "The Hol- 

 stein-Friesian cattle have found one of their best homes in Texas and Mexico. 

 The Texas people are especially clamorous for them. So well are they pleased 

 with the manner in which they run the gauntlet of the acclimating fever, and 

 supply them with big pails of milk, that they cannot get enough of them. They 

 make a splendid cross on the native cows and in a few years their grades will 

 be found there by thousands." 

 No imported stock has been found to do so well in southern Texas. 



Mr. Harwood of Gonzales, Texas, reports that he imported Holstein-Friesian 

 cattle from Lakeside Herd, Syracuse, in 1884, and that they passed the hot sea- 

 son without any appearance of fever. "Similar reports," says the Holstein- 

 Friesian Register of August 1, 1886, " have reached us from South Carolina, 

 Georgia, Mississippi and California. Our breeders in the North are making 

 continued shipments southward and have favorable reports from all quarters. 

 It is safe to assert that among the many desirable qualities of the Holstein, not 

 the least is its hardy nature and easy adaptability to every climate." 



A Mississippi correspondent of the Live Stock Journal wrote, November 

 15, 1886: 



Shorthorns were our first experiment, but they could not be acclimated south 

 of 35 degrees of parallel of latitude, even when brought from Kentucky and 

 Tennessee, just a few degrees north of the line. Of the hundred of various 

 ages that have been introduced, it would be almost impossible to find a thorough- 

 bred animal to-day in our section or south of us. We don't like Herefords 

 because they are not milk producers ; for beef they are splendid, and do well 

 among the granaries of the middle states, and owing to their superior qualities 

 as "mottlers" they give satisfaction on the prairies of the West, from the warm 

 climate of the Rio Grande to the Platte on the north. For Dakota, Wyoming 

 and Minnesota, we think, the cold-blooded, coarse, shaggy Galloway of North 

 Scotland is peculiarly adapted. 



But for the South we want an all-purpose animal, beef, butter, milk and 

 cheese ; animals that are docile and hardy, and in our opinion the Holstein- 

 Friesian is the breed. No other cattle are as easily acclimated, unless perhaps 

 it is the Jersey. Introduce a Holstein under one year old and he will stand the 

 climate of even Florida and Louisiana without a day's sickness. Old cattle 

 occasionally die, but the percentage is indeed small, especially if treated a few 

 days with aconite and quinine. The more we see this grand breed the more we 

 like them, and we predict the day is not far distant when they will be decided 

 the cattle for the farms and plantations, and of the entire South. 



A correspondent of the Reporter, Holly Springs, Miss., writing in 1887, said: 

 "It is only about two years since the first Holstein cow was introduced into 

 our county. . . . Their adaptability to our section has been proven beyond 

 question." 



The well-known breeder, S. N. Wright, of Elgin, 111., writing in 1888 on this 

 subject, said: "I have had some little experience in sending the Holstein- 

 Friesian cattle south, as far as Leon, Old Mexico, also near the city of Mexico. 

 In the fall of 1886 a man from Leon came to my place, after examining different 

 herds and breeds of cattle, concluded to place his order with me for a carload 

 of Holstein-Friesian cattle both grades, and I shipped him seventeen head on the 

 25th of December. In due time they arrived at their new home, all right and 

 in fine condition. In 1887, the following spring, he sent me another order for 

 twenty head, stating that the first lot had done so well and he was so well 

 pleased with them, that he wanted more. On the 23d of June I shipped him 

 another carload. They arrived at their destination about the 10th of July in 



