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They are all excellent cattle for heavy work. The Short-horn 

 stock are generally animals which give a large quantity of milk; 

 but the milk is not very valuable for cheese or butter, and the 

 cattle are generally not strong for work. They are feeble com- 

 pared with the Long-horns or the Middle-horns. They generally 

 put on flesh very quickly, but the cattle of this description do not 

 furnish so fine or healthy beef as the Long-horns. The polled 

 cattle and the animals, generally speaking, belonging to the Short- 

 horn race, are not so healthy; they breed out easily, and do not 

 retain the good qualities of the parent stock for any great length 

 of time. The people of the eastern part of England are aware of 

 this; hence they are continually procuring droves and herds of 

 cattle from Wales and Scotland, and from the mountain districts 

 in England. Parties who read the proceedings cf English Jlgri- 

 cuUural Societies will discover that the prize animals mostly come 

 from or are bred in the hilly regions of England, or among the 

 mountains in Wales or Scotland. 



The town of Barnstable, in Barnstable county, Massachusetts, is 

 in the southern and eastern part of the State, at the lower end of 

 Cape Cod bay, within the old colony of Plymouth. It derives 

 its name from the old Seaport and Borough town of Barn- 

 staple, in the county of Devonshire, situated in the extreme 

 southern and western part of England, in the county of Devon- 

 shire, adjacent to Cornwall, and south of the British channel, at 

 the head of the Biddeford bay, or as it is often called, the Barn- 

 stable bay. This town, in New England, was settled in 1639, by 

 ^ colony under the Rev. Mr. Lathrop, who had been impris- 

 oned at Barnstaple, in 1832, because he held to the doctrine and 

 practices of a Free Congregational church. 



The old North Devon cattle, were early much brought into this 

 part of New England, as well as the Herefords, the Alderneys and 

 the Sussex ox, and Welsh cattle, including the Pembrokes and 

 Glamorgans, and the Long-horns of Wiltshire. 



The towns of Sandwich and Scituate, and some others around 

 Massachusetts bay, were settled by emigrants from Kent and coun- 

 ties in the east part of England, and subsequently to the landing of 

 the first Pilgrims at Plymouth, in 1620, and about 1633 to 1639. 



