• “Welcome, Welcome Englishmen”….

    …were the words the Indian Samoset shouted to greet the Pilgrims when they arrived in the New World.  Unfortunately, Devon came on the next boat and missed that historic moment. But today is a kind of historic moment for Thistle Hill Farm.  We’re saying “welcome Englishmen”…bulls and heifers….to our shores.  Some time ago, on one of several scouting expeditions to England, we came upon a cow that was the most beautiful Devon we had ever seen.  Small wonder; turned out she was the great English champion Tilbrook Cashtiller. With two American friends, John Forelle of New York and Bill Walker of South Carolina, we determined that we had to bring Cashtiller genetics…