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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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entlemen, growing out of theirdifference of opinion, was conducted with great ability, and numerousfacts were collected, which had an important relation to the differentpositions, which the respective gentlemen had taken. It is not the de-sign of the editor of this work to estimate the merits of either view ofthe subject, with reference to a settlement of the question involved. Thereader will find the papers, relating to this controversy, in the third andfourth volumes of the New England Farmer, and an able review of thecontroversy by the enlightened Editor of that paper, in the latter volume,,uncommonly interesting and instructive. It was our design to introduce to our readers, notices of several ofthe most celebrated animals, which have been imported into this country,within a few years, with reference to an improvement of our breed ofneat cattle. But, not being able to obtain portraits of them, we mustcontent ourselves, in this edition, with a brief notice of only the twofollowing:
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COKE DEVON BULL, HOLKHAM. This is a correct drawing of the celebrated bull, whose name we havegiven above. He was purchased in the fall of 1819, by Samuel Hurlbut,& Co. when seven months old, of William Patterson, Esq. of Balti-more. He was sired by Torrence, and out of a cow, both of which wereimported by Messrs. Patterson and Caton, in June 1817. They were apresent from the celebrated English Agriculturalist, the Hon. Mr. Coke,Meiriber of Parliament, from Norfolk. Much of the fine Devon stock,in this country, has been derived from the above bulk ENCYCLOPEDIA. 17 NEAT CATTLE.

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