CHAPTER IX. 



EASTERN IMPORTATIONS 1830 TO 1850, 



While the farmers and stock-growers of the 

 Ohio Valley States were making substantial 

 progress in the improvement of their herds, as 

 "noted in the preceding chapter, large infusions 

 of fresh blood from England were introduced 

 into New York and Pennsylvania. The more 

 important importations made into these and 

 adjacent States, contemporaneous with and 

 following the important operations of Colonel 

 Powel already mentioned, will now be noted. 



New York importations. Mr. Wm. Jackson 

 imported into New York between the years 

 1833 and 1840 the roan cows Duchess, by Ebor 

 (996); Rose, by Skipton, and Miss Scotson. The 

 former was sold to Messrs. Wasson & Shropshire 

 and Rose to N. L. Lindsey of Kentucky. The 

 latter had numerous descendants, among which 

 were many excellent cattle, but, as her sire 

 was not pedigreed, these shared more or less in 

 the discredit that was cast in later years upon 

 cattle tracing to animals having such defects 

 in their lineage. Jackson also imported the 

 bulls Magnet and Dimples 421, the latter being 



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