350 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



longing to this same Lady Washington family, 

 which will be found recorded in the early vol- 

 umes of the herd book. We should place the 

 beginning of his work a few years prior to 

 1850. 



Mr. Timothy Day of Van Buren County was 

 one of the first to begin in a systematic way 

 the breeding of registered Short-horn cattle in 

 Iowa. He commenced about 1854, his founda- 

 tion stock being obtained mainly from Ken- 

 tucky, and consisted of animals descending 

 from the importation of 1817. The earliest 

 sires used in his herd seem to have been Fill- 

 more 2855, a light roan, bred by E. G. Bedford 

 and sired by the Louan show bull Perfection 

 810, and Star of the West 3469, a Mrs. Motte 

 bull of Brutus J. Clay's breeding. He also 

 seems to have used the bull Nicholas Jr. 752, a 

 white, bred by Jere Duncan and sired by D'Ot- 

 ley 432, tracing to imp. Fashion. At least he 

 recorded females in Vol. IV of the American 

 Herd Book, entering them as bred by himself 

 and sired by that bull. It is possible that he 

 simply bought the dams in Kentucky in calf 

 to this bull and recorded the progeny as his 

 own breeding on account of their having been 

 dropped in his possession. During the great 

 extension of Short-horn breeding in the West, 

 following the War of the Eebellion, the Day 

 herd became one of the most prominent in 



