the Devon Breed of Cattle. 
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and Mr. Halse the third. Major Gasson, of Ballinclough, county 
Tipperarj, and Major Barry Fox, also breed Devons. 
To particularise every herd in the United Kingdom would 
be an almost endless task, so numerous have they become of 
late years. The older and more distinguished breeders and 
their various triumphs having been already noticed, it is only 
necessary to add to the list Cecil Smith, Esq., of Lydiard 
House, near Taunton, and his father, who have gained many 
prizes ; together with the Marquis of Anglesea, near Lichfield ; 
the Earl Beauchamp and Sir T. Boughey, in Worcestershire ; 
W. Morris, Esq., Governor of the Dartmoor Convict Prison ; 
Messrs. Stubbs, of Perry Barr, near Birmingham ; Thomas 
Juljan, St. Creed, Cornwall; Loveband and Baker, of Bishop's- 
N} mpton ; Dr. Risdon, of Dolton ; Messrs. W. and J. Perry, of 
Thrushelton ; Shapland, of North Molton ; Jackman, of Law- 
hitton, Cornwall ; John Snow, of Braunton ; William Andrew, 
of East Putford ; Haynes, of Hartland ; Tris, of South Molton ; 
Corner, of Torweston ; and Nurcombe, of Dunster, Somerset; 
the Rev, A. Morgan, of Newport, Monmouthshire; Messrs. Brooks 
and Coles, of Yeovil, Somerset ; and the Rev, S. N. Kingdon, 
of Bridgerule. 
The first recorded exportation of pure-bred Devons to America 
took place in 1817, and was thus narrated in a letter from Mr. G, 
Patterson, of Maryland, to Mr. Richard Peters, of Atlanta, by 
him communicated to Captain Davy, and published in his Preface 
to the second volume of the ' Herd-Book :' — 
" Sykes-ville, Maryland, Sept. 3rd, 1853. 
Dear Sni, — Your letter of the 29th August lias been received. In 1817. 
Mr. Coke (afterwards Earl of Leicester), of Holkham, England, gave my 
brother, Robert Patterson, si.x: Devon heifers and a yearUng Devon bull, named 
by Mr. Coke, Tauras. My brother gave three of the heifers to his father-in- 
law, Richard Cafon ; the other three he gave to my father, William Patter- 
son ; tlie bull Taurus was the joint property of Caton and my father. Two of 
the heifers belonging to my father were in calf by a bull of Mr. Coke's, the 
third heifer was put to Taurus upon their arrival in this country. The three 
afterwards were bred to Taurus, and the progeny of tlie whole were bi-ed 
together. In 1835, after the death of my father, I became possessed of his 
stock of Devon cattle descended from Taurus, tlie three heifer.s above mentioned, 
and the calves of the two heifers which were in calf before leaving England, 
Taurus was bred by Mr. Denny, a tenant of Mr. Coke's. Mr. Coke gave fi fty 
guineas for Taurus. In 1820 I saw the dam of Taurus on the farm of Mr. 
Denny : she made thirteen pounds of butter a-week. In 1835 I wrote to the 
Earl of Leicester that I owned the Devon cattle descended from the stock he 
had given my brother some years before, and that I was anxious to procure a 
bull for a cross.. He sent me out Anchises, and wrote to me that he had 
bought him from one of the best dairies in Devonshire for his own use. 
(Signed) G. Patterson. 
Mr. Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia, tried Short-horns and Devons, 
