172 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



by Meteor (432) of the elder Booth's .breeding 

 a son of Albion (14) out of a cow by C. Col- 

 ling's Windsor (698). Nelson was a red-and- 

 white bull by Nelson (449), a roan bred by 

 Simpson of Babworth and got by Colling's 

 Ketton (346), he by the $5,000 Comet, going 

 back on the dam's side .to Charles Colling's 

 herd. 



The first pedigreed bulls. According to 

 Allen the first pedigreed Short-horn bulls to 

 set hoof on American soil were Marquis (408) 

 and Moscow (9413), imported into the Genesee 

 Valley of New York, in 1817, by Samuel M. 

 Hopkins of Moscow. Mr. Warfield lists this 

 importation as " supposed." The very cream 

 of the Charles Colling blood is represented in 

 the breeding of Marquis (from Mr. Jonas Whit- 

 aker's), as he had for dam the far-famed Mag- 

 dalena, by Comet, and his sire was Wellington 

 (679), intensely bred in the blood of Favorite 

 (252) on the Old Cherry foundation. Moscow 

 (9413) was likewise deep in the richest Short- 

 horn blood of his time. He was a roan of Sir 

 Henry Vane Tempest's breeding, of the Prin- 

 cess blood, sired by Wynyard (703) out of El- 

 vira by Phenomenon (491); second dam Prin- 

 cess by Favorite (252). Along with this well- 

 bred pair of bulls Allen says there came a cow 

 called Princess that was said to be descended 

 from a Robert Colling ancestry. It is said that 



