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great port of embarkation, as well as the whole of the country 

 round the Bristol channel. The Black Welsh cattle and the 

 Pembrokes, Glamorgans and the Anglesey ox, and the Devons, 

 seem to have come into Rhode Island, the Eastern part of Connec- 

 ticut, and the southern part of Massachusetts. The Devons, 

 however, were the favorite stock. They soon reached Worcester 

 county and the central part of Massachusetts. 



The town of Hingham, in Norfolk county, Massachusetts, was 

 first settled by a colony from old Hingham, in Norfolk county, 

 England, in 1632. These people brought their cattle with them, 

 which were the Middle horn cattle. Some of the towns in Norfolk 

 county were first settled from Devonshire and Plymouth. Many 

 families came by the way of the Bristol channel. Braintree was 

 settled from Devonshire. The great-grandfather of John Adams, 

 President of the United States, came, as he said, from " the dragon 

 persecution in Devonshire," to New England. 



The counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and others on the eastern coast 

 of England, in that day, was possessed of a race of cattle known 

 as the " Suffolk Dun," a middle horned cattle. The cow was very 

 much sought for on account of the extraordinary quantity of 

 milk which she yielded. She was held, in the days of Henry 

 the Eighth, to be a royal animal, and was painted on the national 

 flag of England. This cow was celebrated for her milk in 

 almost every part of England. Many of this race of cattle 

 were brought into the counties of Middlesex, Norfolk and Essex, 

 in New England, and were preserved as great milkers by the 

 dairymen. 



This stock has spread its progeny very much over the northern 

 part of Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, and Maine, but it 

 has been crossed by the Long-horns and the Yorkshire types. 



These cattle, in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, in England, 

 have been a good deal crossed out by the Galloways, ami are looked 

 upon as furnishing a new stock. The new race are now polled 

 cattle. The colors are red, red and white, brindled, and a yel- 

 lowish cream color. The Suffolk cow is not inferior to any other 

 breed in the quantity of milk that she yields. 



