INTRODUCTORY 



This record i>f prize winners \v:is prepared at tin- request "I" the Ani'-ri- 



eati Shorthorn 1 ireeders' . \ssocia lion ;l s conveyed ti. me by its e licient 



ary. \Vhil.' tliis is a record of tin- more prominent prize winners 



luring the last twenty years and makes 11.1 claim ti> ' history of 



Shorthorns. I think it is not inappn.priat. I wish a very brief 



in -Mt which may an historical s-ttii inent has 



>!, i taken, in part at least, from th.- ii.-implili-t. Shorthurn Cattle iti 



soiiri," which the writM- prepared in 1 !H 4 for the Missouri Stat-- Hoard of 



culture. 



Shorthorn cattle, like their original Aniilo- Sa \< >n owners and im- 

 provei : c"tnposite di-i-in. Authentic history of the ).!<.(! i 



diu-in- tile lii-st h df of the IMh (nt nr\-, tlioiiuh tradition re] 

 cattl. MII.L; in tlie northern counti- i.md at a much earlier 



.-nturies prec.-dii.u th.- f..imati\e \ rim] of (he breed in 



the counties of fMirham. IJncoln Vorl< and Northumberland -town 



rth I'mbria the kingdom had I i\ coinpiercd. ruled and 



jiliindert'd b\ the K<>maiis. > . ,nd tinallx by the 



-. under William the t 'onqiieror. 



The .'. arrinL? i 



aliti' : and relit. eil in the cmcibl. diiiK centuries into 



:e that has lead th" civilization of the world the 



vine developmeMt jn N"rth l"n led b\- intelli- 



husbaiidmen and refined b\- a I..HL : and 



into the modern breed of Short!,. B the 



- \vlio iinpi-o\--(l Slioi-thnrii- ami 



ptpularit\ \!a\-nard. .an, \\'et iierel I. \Vaist.-lI. Vv'hin 



Stephens.>ii Uobson. rarcla\'. ('I. n I'ollin^, Tl, 



'ths. Th. i .John. ! >l!inir 



brothers, Thomas I'.ates and the i;,H.;hs that 



popularity. This ! ,i|dished by judicious i ,1 f.-'diny 



iinl land. 



The earliest imp" 1 Shorihon.s into the I 



:iia. In IT'.Hi an im|or: 

 . York. r ; 



more 

 and were dri\ 



i le. though h- 



to the 

 lishment of th- 



E 



I 

 marched westward "with th< star "f eni|.. 



