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cluce advanced ideas in agriculture throughout 

 the territory once dominated by the Iroquois. 

 " Squaw-farming" had not caused the lands of 

 the Empire State to blossom as the rose, and 

 the white pioneers had made little progress in 

 the line of live-stock improvement. 



Immediately after the close of the war of 

 1812 with the mother country Mr. Cox, an Eng- 

 lishman, brought into Rensselaer County, near 

 Albany, N. Y., a Short-horn bull and two cows 

 that were placed upon the farm of Mr. Cadwal- 

 lad er Golden. This was before Coates and Whit- 

 aker had brought the English Herd Book even 

 to its manuscript stage. No pedigrees came 

 with the cattle. From this trio a numerous 

 progeny resulted, known in Short-horn par- 

 lance as "Cox Importation Cattle." The de- 

 descendants of the Cox cows were subsequently 

 crossed by the bulls Comet (or Cornet) 2649 

 (158) and Nelson 1914, imported in June, 1823, 

 by Messrs. Cox & Wayne. Some of the cows 

 thus descended passed into the possession of a 

 Mr. Matthew Bullock of Albany County, and 

 their progeny acquired local reputation under 

 the name of "Bullock stock." They were de- 

 scribed as "large, robust animals, good, al- 

 though not remarkably fine in quality, but of 

 true Short-horn type." Comet, or Cornet, was 

 a red-and-white (spotted) bull, bred by Sir H. C. 

 Ibbetson of Denton Park,.0tley, and was got 



