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in capable hands on both sides of the Ohio River, 

 some of the best cattle of succeeding years tra- 

 cing descent to it. The imported cows were 

 Caroline (red), by Dashwood; Red Rose (red- 

 and- white), by Ernesty; White Rose (white), 

 by Publicola; Multiflora (roan), by Walter; 

 Daisy (red-and-white), by Wild, and Premium 

 (roan), by Maxim us, which were accompanied 

 by the two-year-old bull Symmetry (5382). 

 Some of the bulls appearing in certain of these 

 pedigrees were not at that time recorded in 

 England, on account of which efforts to dis- 

 credit their descendants were subsequently 

 made; and, as in the case of the "Seventeens," 

 Pattons and Cox cattle, such efforts were at- 

 tended with more or less success. 



In 1836, in connection with Mr. Samuel 

 Smith, Mr. Dun sent another order to Mr. 

 Douglas, which was filled by the shipment of 

 the roan bull Comet (1854), the red-and-white 

 George (2059), and the cows Mary Ann (roan), 

 by Middlesboro; Adelaide (roan), by Magnum 

 Bonum (2243), and Jewess. The latter proved 

 barren. Adelaide was in calf to Brutus (1752), 

 and gave birth to the heifer Beauty of Wharf- 

 dale. Mary Ann had been served in England 

 by Norfolk, and gave birth to the roan bull calf 

 Otley (4632). To these cows the American Ade- 

 laide and Mary Ann families trace. In 1838 

 Mr. Dun imported two bulls from Premium, by 



