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Tlie cream colored cattle are also found in Maine, They gene- 

 rally excel both for milk and beef. The yellow cattle are good 

 workers, quick for the plow and cart. 



The first white inhabitants of Lynn, Massachusetts, came from 

 Lincolnshire, and brought cattle with them. Here we find repre- 

 sentatives of the old Lincolnshire ox, with a cruss of the early 

 Sliort-horus. The first colony came in 1629j they were fiirsiers; 

 but one of the most prominent men amongst them Avas Edward 

 Ingalls, who was a tanner. He erected a tannery, and from that 

 day to this, Lynn has been noted for its shoe and leather trade. 

 In 1637, another colony came from the town of Lynn, in Norfolk 

 county, England. They were also principally farmers; possessed 

 a large stock of horned cattle, which they kept in one herd, and 

 had a man to keep them. These people cut their grass in the 

 meadows and marshes, which prov^ed very serviceable to feed their 

 cattle on. There were more farmers in Lyim, Massachusetts, at 

 that time, than in any other of the early settlements. Their grain 

 was Indian corn. One of the historians of that period says : 

 " Let no man make a jest of pumpkins, for witli this food the 

 Lord was pleased to feed his people to their good content, till corn 

 and cattle were increased." 



At this day, the middle horned cattle mostly prevail in New- 

 England, but there still remains strains of the Long-horns as well 

 as the Short-horns. 



In the year 1638, the New Haven colony was planted. Tliey 

 first came from London, after having sojourned at Leyden, in Hol- 

 land. The inhabitants of Milford and Guilford, and other towns 

 in New Haven county, came out the year following, from Kent 

 and Surrey, bringing cattle with them; but very many of the 

 inhabitants of Connecticut came by the way of the Bristol chan- 

 nel, bringing with them tlie Devon cattle, in great numbers, also 

 the Sussex and Herefords; but there are more pure Devons in 

 Connecticut than in any other part of New England. An early 

 writer says, " that the first planters in New England were plain 

 men, bred to tillage and keeping cattle; that a great deal of the 

 same spirit lias ever remained among these peoi)le." There is, 

 says this writer, "a certain niceness and delicacy which still con- 



