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to have been bred by Richard Booth at Stud- 

 ley. Her pedigree was also lost, but she is said 

 to have been a prize-winner as a dairy cow in 

 England before being shipped, and after her 

 arrival in America gave thirty-four quarts of 

 rich milk per day on grass alone. She was sold 

 in 1839 to N. 0. Baldwin of Cleveland, 0. A 

 third cow in this same shipment was the white 

 Miss Mellon, that became the property of Lewis 

 F. Allen, founder of the American Herd Book. 

 She was also an excellent milker, producing, 

 Mr. Allen states, for weeks in succession twelve 

 pounds of butter per week. 



In 1836 Messrs. Edward A. Leroy and Thomas 

 H. Newbold of Livingston Co., New York, im- 

 ported three heifers and the bull Windle 185. 

 The heifers were Venus, by Magnum Bonum; 

 Dione, by Monarch, and Netherby, by the same 

 sire. About 1836 Peter A. Remsen of Genesee 

 County imported the red bull Alexander 4, of 

 Mr. Maynard's breeding, and several cows and 

 heifers, including Adelaide, Pretty Face, La- 

 vinia and White Rose. He bred from these 

 for several years, and after disposing of some 

 of them in New York removed with the re- 

 mainder to Maryland, where they were finally 

 dispersed. About 1838 Mr. John F. Sheaffe es- 

 tablished a Short-horn herd at his farm and 

 country residence In Duchess County, on the 

 Hudson River. He started with cattle de- 



