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scribes this herd in 1833, :is lie then saw them, as being large, well-spread 
cattle, black and white in color, and remarkable for their uncommon yield 
of milk, and of great value as dairy animals ; their qualities in that lino 
were universally acknowledged wherever known. 
About Dutch Cattlo Generally. 
In treating of Dutch cattle we have adopted the name Holstein, and forv 
the reason that in tho West certainly the importers seem to have fancied 
the cattle found in Holstein, and to have imported more largely of them 
than any other of the Dutch cattle. That the right name for all those 
families of ancient lineage, bred in North-IIolland, and recognized a 3 
having been for many generations great milkers and as making heavy beef 
cattle, of good quality, when dry, should bo Dutch cattle, there is, from 
the testimony, little doubt. So also it would seem that the Holstein cattle 
are a sub-race of the older Dutch, as tho following letter from Prof. J. 
G. Hengweld, of tho Netherlands Royal Veterinary Institute, to Mr. 
Charles Muller, United States Consul at Amsterdam, would seem to show. 
This is dated Utrecht, November, 1872, and published in tho Report of 
the on Dutch Cattle in Agriculture of Massachusetts, second series, 
1873-74. From it we extract as follows : 
Quoting from Low’s Agricultural History of the Domestic European 
Animals, etc., he says : “In comparing these varieties of cattle to tho 
breeds of the Continent, there is an analogy found on the one side between 
the great breeders of the marshes and the black cattle, natives of tho 
plains and marshes of Holland ; and on the other, between the more various 
kinds on the north of the Humber and those of Holstein and Jutland, 
whence the best cattle of Northern Europe have sprung.” It is not un- 
reasonable to suppose, that these latter breeds may have been introduced 
during the first period of Saxon colonization by the Jutes and Angles, -who 
settled down in that part of England. But at a more approximate period 
to us, it appears that cattle were frequently imported from the neighbor- 
ing continent, and that they were mixed with nativo breeds. 
It was especially the Dutch cows that were considered the best milch 
binds of Northern Europe. 
There is hero a very clear and evident difference made between the ex- 
cellent Dutch cattle and the Holstein and Jutland breeds whose origin 
Low traces to a Saxon colonization. How Low, a few lines further on, 
can make tho Dutch cattle derive their origin from tho Holstein cattle 
• — from which lines the ‘herd hook’ draws its inference (tho same occurs 
in the French version, ‘whence the best Dutch races themselves originate’ )— 
is incomprehensible ; and it is evident Low errs, or is not sufficiently ao» 
