168 A HISTORY OP SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



bulls descended from Mars and Venus one was taken to Jessamine 

 Co., Ky., the other to Ohio, probably the Scioto Valley; but as all 

 this breed or breeds, in their various intermixtures after their 

 introduction in Kentucky, were called 'Patton stock,' they became 

 commingled, the shorter-horned and refined ones with the longer- 

 horned and coarser ones, and were, for many years afterward, 

 universally known by i/hat name only. 



"In the year 1803 Mr. Daniel Harrison, James Patton and 

 James Gay, of Clark Co., Ky., bought of Mr. Miller, the importer, 

 living in Virginia, a two-year-old bull, descended from a bull and 

 cow of his importation. This bull was called Pluto (825 A. H. B.) 

 and said to be of the ' milk ' breed. He is described as ' dark-roan 

 or red in CDlor, large in size, with small head and neck, light, 

 short horns, small-boned and heavily fleshed.' He was bred 

 mostly to ' Patton' cows and produced some fine milkers. He was 

 taken to Ohio about the year 1812 and died soon afterward. 



" In the year 1810 Capt. William Smith of Fayette Co., Ky., pur- 

 chased of the before-mentioned Mr. Miller of Virginia and brought 

 to Kentucky a bull called Buzzard 304 (3254). He was coarser, 

 larger, and taller than Pluto, but not so heavy. He was bred in 

 different herds many years, and also used by the Society of Shak- 

 ers at Pleasant Hill, Mercer Co., Ky., in 1821 and for some years 

 afterward. 



"In the year 1811 the bull Shaker (2193 A. H. B.) was bought 

 of M r. Miller aforesaid, and used some years both by the Pleasant 

 Hill, Ky., and Union Village, O., Societies of Shakers. They 

 afterward sold him to Messrs. Welton and Hutchcraft of Ken- 

 tucky. He was of the ' milk,' or Short-horn breed. This account 

 we have from Messrs. Micajah Burnett of the Pleasant Hill and 

 Peter Boyd of the Union Village Societies, and although they each 

 differ in some non-essential items the identity of the bull is fully 

 recognized. These four bulls, viz., Mars, Pluto, Buzzard and 

 Shaker, appear to have been purely bred from the Gough & Mil- 

 ler importations previous to the year 1810. From these bulls, but 

 not on equally pure-bred cows of those importations, descended many 

 animals whose pedigrees have been recognized and recorded as 

 Short-horns in the earlier volumes of the English Herd Book, and 

 of consequence since in the American Herd Book, as the latter is 

 founded on the English publication as standard authority in all 

 matters of Short-horn genealogy. 



"During the years above mentioned several other bulls from 

 the Gough & Miller Virginia stock were brought into Kentucky 

 and Ohio some with names and some without names other than 

 those of their owners as 'Inskip's Bull,' 'Peeples' Bull 1 (Mars, 



