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ling and called The American Cow) by Favorite 

 (252), grandam by Punch (531), great-grandam 

 by Foljambe (263), great-great-grandam by 

 Hubback (319)." 



In the above pedigree The American Cow is 

 originally identified. In Vol. II, p. 497, first 

 edition E. H. B., the same Red Rose is again re- 

 corded as Red Rose 1st, her dam being " The 

 American Cow," as before. In a conversation 

 with the late L. F. Allen, Mr. John Thornton 

 of London, who visited this country in the 

 winter of 1870-71, remarked that he had never 

 learned why the American Cow was so called, 

 although he had made diligent inquiries in 

 England for the reason. 



The American history of the cow, as we have 

 been informed on authority which we deem 

 good, is this: In some year, not long after 1801, 

 a son of Mr. Hustler, who was a Short-horn 

 cattle-breeder in Yorkshire, emigrated to New 

 York, and brought with him some Short-horn 

 cattle, among which was this nameless cow, or 

 then heifer, afterward dam of the Red Rose 1st, 

 which his father bought of Robert Colling. 

 The younger Hustler went into business in New 

 York city, and put his cattle into the adjoining 

 county of Westchester. After a few years' stay 

 in America he returned to England, and not 

 finding his Short-horns appreciated on this side 

 the ocean (as we find no record of them or 



