178 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



that afterward acquired international fame at 

 Killerby and Warlaby, as detailed in preceding 

 chapters. In the hands of such men as Gar- 

 rard, Clay, Warfield, Bedford, the Renicks, 

 Trimble, Harrold and other breeders of sound 

 judgment a class of cattle sprang from this 

 foundation that would have compared favora- 

 bly with the best results attained by their 

 English contemporaries, the Messrs. Booth and 

 others, whose cattle similarly descended - 

 became " fashionable." In vain was this fact 

 pointed out by thoughtful and disinterested 

 men. Vain were all the winnings of the de- 

 scendants of the importation of 1817 at the 

 great shows of the West. The fiat of fashion 

 went out against them in the later years, and 

 whole herds of valuable cattle carrying but a 

 mere drop of the original "Seventeen" blood 

 were practically lost to the braed because of 

 the unreasoning prejudice created against 

 them.* 



The imported Long-horns were sold by Col. 

 Sanders to Capt. Smith and Dr. Tegarden, in 

 whose hands they did not prove popular. Some 



*The late Judge T. C. Jones of Delaware, O., one of the closest students 

 of American Short-horn breeding', orica said: "We have a great many 

 Short-horns of high, and even fashionable rank, the origin of whose lineage 

 is quite as obscure as that of the Short-horns of Col. Sanders at a period 

 much less remote than the date of that importation. * * * A large class 

 of valuable cattle, with well-established characteristics, has been sacri- 

 ficed. Following the whims and fancies of speculators in pedigrees, in 

 some instances, thick-fleshed and quick-feeding cattle of this and other un- 

 fashionable strains of blood have boen discarded to make way for light- 

 'fleshed and unthrifty animals of the fancy sorts." 



