684 The American Naturalist. [August. 
more milk than the ordinary cow, and are much hardier and more 
inteUigent; 
" They differ considerably in both size and color ; while some 
are polled others are not. This diversity is doubtless owing to 
the different degrees of purity of blood. For years it was known 
as the ' Stapler cow,' and attracted but little attention. But after 
sales from this herd began to be made the people of the surround- 
ing counties came to appreciate their excellence, and of course 
they must have a name, and ' Guinea ' was the result. The 
demand for the ' little cow ' was such that it was seen to 
be worth while to breed them for sale. When found for 
sale the price ranges from $40 to $100 for females; males 
much lower." 
The Jamestoivns is the local name used to designate a family of 
cattle that sprang from a pure Suffolk heifer that came to this 
country in the United States relief ship " Jamestown " (Captain 
R. B. Forbes), in the year 1847, o" its return from a trip to Ire- 
land loaded with a cargo of provisions for her starving inhabitants. 
This heifer was given to Captain Forbes by the Lord Lieutenant 
of Ireland as a token of acknowledgment on the part of his 
people. The heifer proved a deep milker, giving at her best 
twenty-six quarts per day, beer measure, of the richest milk. 
She was bred for several years to Jersey and other horned bulls, 
nearly all her progeny being without horns, though all her calves 
but one, so far as I can learn, were bulls, which, according to my 
experience, are much more likely to show the horns than are 
heifers from such cross-breeding. In 1854 this remarkable cow 
dropped a bull-calf sired by Thomas Motley's Jersey bull Beverly. 
This bull was out of Flora by a first-prize winner at the Royal 
Agricultural Show in Jersey. Flora was one of the best cows 
imported by Mr. Motley, having made sixteen pounds of butter 
per week. The calf was named Jamestown from the ship that 
brought over his mother, and was secured by the late Dr. Eben 
Wight and brought to Dedham, Mass., where he was kept many 
years, leaving a numerous progeny, and so highly was the blood 
prized by the people in the vicinity that a vote was at one time 
passed at a meeting of the Norfolk county Agricultural Society, 
