CATTLE, HOLSTEINS. 
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quaintcd with the history of both countries. For already seven centuries 
before the colonization in England, of the Jutes and Angles, theFriesians 
[Hollanders] were known for the greater number of their cattle, as will 
further appear. 
Every Spring, thousands of Holstein heifers are driven to the fields 
of Northern Germany and Holland, where people find it is more profita- 
ble to buy heifers than to raise them ; and the name of the breed got 
confused, so that the name “Holland cow,” was here translated into 
Dutch cow,” etc. 
About Herd Books. 
The “herd-book” takes the unwarranted liberty, whenever it should 
speak of Dutch cattle, of adding immediately after, the word “Holstein.” 
It gives to Holstein cattle purchased in North Holland — and of which 
the first importation took place in Massachusetts in 1852, afterward in 
1857, etc., but the greatest in 1861 — all the honor the Dutch cattle so 
abundantly deserve, and appears to have made the geographical blunder 
of supposing North Holland, Friesland, Groningen and Oldenburg a3 
belonging to Holstein. 
The thesis so arbitrarily adopted and set forth by the “ herd-book,” i 
that the large black and white cattle imported into North America from 
the Netherland provinces of North Holland and Friesland have “undoubt- 
edly descended from the original stock of Holstein,” as it proclaims on 
page 9, requires a most decided denial and refutation for the honor and 
reputation of Dutch cattle ; and, without being led astray by the most 
strangely juinbled-up references mentioned, I wish to point out, — 
True History. 
1st. That the history of the Dutch or Holland cattle dates further back 
than that of Holstein. 
2nd. That the Holstein cattle descended from the Dutch ; and 
3rd. That the name of “Holstein cattle” is only a local appellation 
for a peculiar indigenous breed, constituting only one of several apper- 
taining to the same group, namely, to the groups of the Lowland races, 
of which the Dutch breed is the fundamental type. To this I now proceed. 
According to the “Allgemeine Deutsche Real Encyclopedia,” the 
origin of Holstein Schleswyck lies buried in obscurity, and Holstein was 
probably visited by the Cimbri ; while a century after, the Roman 
Emperor, Ciesar Tiberius, arrived with his army and fleet before tho 
mouth of the Elbe, without, however, setting foot on the Holstein shore. 
According to Tacitus, it may be stated, that the Holstein Baltic coast was 
