846 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



purchased females of the Illustrious, Harriet, 

 Young Mary, Young Phyllis and White Rose 

 tribes, as well as the bull J. E. B. Stuart, that 

 was shown with great success. Other Michigan 

 breeders recording in Vol. Y of the Herd Book, 

 issued in 1861, were B. J. Bidwell of Tecumseh 

 who seems to have started his herd with cattle 

 purchased mainly in Ohio and Kentucky; his 

 foundation stock consisting largely of " Seven- 

 teens," Daisys (by Wild), Amelias, etc. and M. 

 Shoemaker of Jackson, whose Belleflowers (of 

 the Pansy tribe) obtained a good local reputa- 

 tion. The latter also had the Estervilles of the 

 E. P. Prentice (N. Y.) stock. 



Amos F. Wood of Mason became interested 

 in Short-horn breeding as early as 1852 in the 

 State of New York before his removal to Mich- 

 igan. In 1867 he brought to the latter State 

 representatives of several well-known Eastern 

 families, such as Pansy, by Blaize, and Bright 

 Eyes, by Favorite. He bred these two families 

 until 1872, when he added another Pansy and 

 a Bloom heifer. He continued breeding from 

 this stock until June, 1874, when they were 

 sold at auction at an average of $271.50. Mr. 

 Wood was a Short-horn enthusiast and after- 

 ward established another herd. 



First Short-horns west of the Mississippi. 

 The first pedigreed Short-horn cattle taken west 

 of the Mississippi River of which we have any 



