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The cattle; which arrived on ships bringing supplies to the New World likely meant the difference between complete extinction of the young settlement and its survival.

The cattle from home provided supply of meal and milk products through times- of poor crops, bad weather, indiah raids, disease and other calamities.

When agriculture in the colonies grew and prospered, the family cow became a:'familiar fixture regardless of tHe crops raised. As Boston, Philadelphia and other cities began to take shape, the earliest patterns of dairy marketing were formed as farmers living nearby took their milk into the city for

or street corner sale. house-to-house

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