PROGRESS IN THE CENTRAL WEST. 849 



Iowa State Fair, which was held at Fail-field in 

 1854, Mr. H. G. Stuart of Lee County and Tim- 

 othy Day of Van Buren County exhibited Short- 

 horns, or "Durhams," as they were then com- 

 monly called in the West. In 1858 J. H. Wal- 

 lace, at that time Secretary of the Iowa State 

 Agricultural Society, published what he termed 

 the Iowa Herd Book and continued it for a few 

 years. An examination of these volumes shows 

 no record of cattle calved prior to 1849, and 

 most of them were bred in the early fifties. 

 Col. E. W. Lucas of Iowa City bought a Short- 

 horn bull as early as 1845, and there is a record 

 of a pure-bred bull having been taken into Mus- 

 catine County by Charles A. Warfield in 1841. 

 These are the first references we have to the 

 introduction of the breed into the "Hawkeye" 

 State.* 



So far as herd -book records reveal the facts, 

 the first pure-bred Short-horn produced in the 

 State of Iowa was the bull Marion 1833, regis- 

 tered as bred by and the property of Samuel 

 Hollingsworth, Pilot Grove, Lee County, calved 

 April 4, 1851, sired by Fremont 516 and tracing 

 on dam's side to Lady Washington by Diomed, 

 said to have been imported in 1837, but as to 

 the facts connected with her importation all 

 Short-horn records are silent. Mr. Hollings- 

 worth seems to have owned several females be- 



* We are indebted for these facts to Mr. H. W. Lathrop of Iowa City. 



