798 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Lady, by Gray Monarch, and St. Valentine's 

 daughters Selma and Lady Valentine.* 



Herd-book consolidation. One of the most 

 important events of the period under review 

 was the purchase in the autumn of 1882 by the 

 American Short-horn Breeders' Association of 

 the herd book, which had up to that date been 

 issued as a private enterprise by Lewis F. Allen, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. The price paid was $25,000. 

 More or less confusion in reference to Ameri- 

 can records had arisen from the fact that a 

 pedigree register, known as the American Short- 

 horn Record, had been established and pub- 

 lished for some years in Kentucky, and that a 

 similar book, known as the Ohio Short-horn 

 Record, was being issued by the breeders of the 

 Buckeye State. Both of these registers were 

 the manifestation 6f disapproval of the manner 

 in which Mr. Allen was conducting the herd 

 book which he had established in 1846. The 

 purchase and consolidation of these various 

 records by the National Breeders' Association 

 was the happy solution of a situation that was 



*At the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha same year Mr. H. F. 

 Brown defeated St. Valentine after a contest developing some bitterness 

 with the Canadian-bred Nominee 131262, a roan lacking the wealth of 

 flesh shown by St. Valentine, but big, level and presented in fine bloom. 

 In 1899 the Short-honTherd prize at the Illinois State Fair was won by Mr. 

 T. J. Wornall, Mosby, Mo., with Viscount of Anoka 125081, bred by Messrs- 

 Harding of Waukesha, Wis. ; among the females shown being Sultana (by 

 Gay Monarch) and Lady Valentine, seen in Mr. Ward's herd of 1898. Two 

 thick-fleshed, sappy heifer calves by St. Valentine were successfully 

 shown by Messrs. Bobbins at the fall fairs of 1899, one of which, Ruberla, 

 a Sittyton Duchess of Gloster, was champion calf of the circuit. 



