Show Curiosities About Cattle The first cattle that were brought into the American colonies were landed at the James River plantation in Virginia in the year 1607 They came from the West Indies In-dies ana were the descendants of the cattle cat-tle taken to those islands by Columbus on his second voyage In the year 1493 In 1610 several cows were landed and again in 1611 about one hUbdred bead more were brought to the plantation This therefore was the genesis of the cattle nosiness in America In order to encourage the industry to the fullest possible extant an order was passed forbidding the slaughter of any animal of the bovine kind under penalty of death Under this restriction the number of cattle increased to 30000 in Virginia alone before the end of the year 1619 The first cattle brought into the New Bnelund colonies arrived ar-rived at Plymouth in 1624 and were imported Im-ported from England by Governor Winslow Wins-low Three heifers and a bull made up the cargo Hin color the old record says they were black black ana white and brindle In 1026 twelve cows were sent to Cape Ann and in 1629 thirty more In 1630 about one hundred were imported for the exclusive use of tie colony of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Bay During the same year 103 were sent from Holland to New York so that by the year 1630 there were a good many bend of horned cattle In the different differ-ent colonies Tho reader naturally thinks of these animals as superb specimens of the bovine race but they were not History His-tory that Is the curious and interesting part of history tells us that the average weight of fat cattle in the Liverpool market mar-ket as late as 1710 was only Sit pounds Republic What an evolution in 182 yearsSt Louis |