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The old Alderneys crossed on French cattle, on the Devons, 

 the Sussex ox, and the Wiltshire Long-horns form a large and 

 strong animal, among the best for beef and milk. Along with 

 these came some of the Long-horns from Cumberland, North- 

 umberland and Leicestershire, England. Indeed Miles Standish, 

 one of the original Puritans, and the captain of the band that 

 first landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, was born in Lancashire, 

 England, and was an officer in the British army before he 

 joined the congregation at Lyden. 



The county of Worcester, Massachusetts, received a very large 

 supply of its original inhabitants from the Plymouth colony, and 

 subsequently from Middlesex and Essex. 



The Massachusetts colony had imported, by the year 1640, 

 large numbers of the choicest of cattle. There had come into 

 the colony up to this period 21,200 passengers in about 298 ships. 



The Puritans were at great pains in settling their colonies and 

 grants. It had cost them, by the year 1640, more than $1,000,- 

 000 for emigration to New-England. The people were mostly of 

 high intelligence; they knew what good farming was, and what 

 kind of cattle were necessary for their stock. Comparison and 

 observation had given the eye of the Pilgrims the experience to 

 discover and pick out the very best animals. Such were brought 

 over by the early fathers. 



The town of Medford, in the county of Middlesex, Massachu- 

 setts, was first settled by emigrants from Lincoln and Northampton 

 counties, in the north and east part of England. Here were found 

 the Long-horns and the old Leicestersliire cattle, as also many of 

 the Short-horn cattle. 



Northamptonshire contained less waste land, and more seats of 

 the nobility and gentry, than any of the other counties in Eng- 

 land. The town of Northampton, England, has long been noted 

 for its capacious markets, while the trade for boots and shoes 

 manufactured in this county was very great. 



The county of Norfolk, England, at an early day, produced 

 great quantities of 'butter; while in the county of Lincoln tlie 

 breed of cattle was larger than that of any other county in England, 

 except Somersetshire. Lincoln has ever stood noted as an flgri- 



