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ers, including such men as Col. Powel, F. M. 

 Rotch and others. The first volume was issued 

 during the depression of the "forties." In the 

 meantime, a committee of breeders had been 

 appointed in Kentucky to investigate and col- 

 lect the pedigrees of Short-horns bred in that 

 State. The results of this committee's investi- 

 gations were not published, but supplied a basis 

 for further research. 



When Mr. Allen undertook the second volume 

 of the book, after the revival of the "fifties," 

 he met with good encouragement, the book 

 ultimately appearing in the autumn of 1855 

 with something like 3,000 pedigrees.* The lead- 

 ing breeders of the West had joined with those 

 of the East in placing the work squarely upon 

 its feet. Pedigrees were forwarded from Ken- 

 tucky by such men as 1 Edwin G., Benjamin C. 

 and George M. Bedford; Dr. R. J. Brecken ridge, 

 0. H. Burbidge; Brutus J., Cassius M., M. M. 

 and H. Clay Jr.; Silas Corbin, the Messrs. Cun- 

 ningham, R. T. Dillard, Messrs. Dudley, Jere 

 and William R. Duncan, J. P. Fisher, John 

 Allen Gano, the Garrards, James and Reuben 

 Hutchcraft, C. W. Innes, George W. Johnson, 

 J. G. Kinnaird, Samuel D. Martin, James S. 

 Matson, A brain and James Renick, the Shakers, 

 the Shropshires, the Vanmeters, Warfields and 

 others. From Ohio came the pedigrees of the 



"This total includes stock recorded as produce under dams. 



