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County Stock Association," and through their 

 agents, Messrs. David Brooks and S. L. Fuller, 

 purchased in England twenty-four Short-horns. 

 Unfortunately one-half of these were lost dur- 

 ing a storm at sea. Among the surviving ani- 

 mals were the bulls Governor 2922, Usurper 

 3522 and Bletsoe 2548, and the cows Music, a 

 roan of the Gwynne family bred by Mr. Tan- 

 queray, ^ sired by Balco (9918); Hopeless, red- 

 and-white, sired by Horatio (10335); Lady El- 

 lington, red, sired by Broughton Hero (6811); 

 Medora, also a Gwynne, by Horatio, (10335); 

 Phoenix 2d, red-roan, by Horatio (10335); Aus- 

 tralia, red -and -white, by Lord Foppington 

 (10437), and Camilla, red-roan Gwynne of Tan- 

 queray's breeding, sired by Fusileer (11499). 

 Several of these cows passed into the posses- 

 sion of * Gen. James S. Wads worth of Geneseo 

 and left a valuable progeny. Soon after this 

 importation was made the bull Governor 2922 

 was sent out to the same parties. 



Thomas Richardson (New York). About 

 the year 1854 Thomas Richardson of New York 

 City imported some Short-horns along with 

 other live stock, among them the Duke of 

 Cambridge (12746) and the Booth-bred cows 

 Bijou, by Crown Prince (10087); Fanella, by 

 Baron Warlaby (7813); Fanny Warlaby, by 

 same sire; Harmony, by Crown Prince; Rachel, 

 by Hopewell (10332), together with Laura, by 



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