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most desirable points as the fashionable stock of 

 the present day, with small bone for an animal of 

 his weight. Pluto was kept on the farms of his 

 owners and served their cows and those of such 

 others as were willing to pay $2 per cow, which was 

 not many, as the price was still considered too high. 

 He was bred upon the cows produced by the Patton 

 bull Mars, which produced stock that has rarely 

 been excelled in all the essential qualities of the 

 cow kind. They were unquestionably the best milk- 

 ers that have ever been in Kentucky, taken as a 

 stock in the general, and but little inferior in point 

 of form to the most approved stock of the present 

 day, and of greater size. In the year 1812, or there- 

 abouts, Pluto was taken to Ohio, and shortly after- 

 wards died. 



"In the year 1810, or thereabouts, Capt. Wm. 

 Smith, of Fayette, purchased of the same Mr. Mil- 

 ler the bull called Buzzard. He was a brindle, very 

 large and coarse, taller than Pluto, but not consid- 

 ered so heavy. A number of the Pluto cows, as well 

 as the produce of the Patton bull, were bred to 

 Buzzard, but the stock was held rather in disrepute 

 on account of coarseness and the disinclination to 

 early maturity. Buzzard was sired by the same 

 bull that Pluto was, but came out of a different cow, 

 said to be of the Longhorned stock which Miller had 

 bought of Matthew Patton, Sr. 



" About the year 1813, a Mr. Inskip came to Ken- 

 tucky from Virginia and brought with him a large 

 bull called Inskip 's Brindle. He was a large coarse 

 bull, and I have always understood that he was a 

 descendant of Miller 's stock, mixed with the Long- 

 horned stock that Matthew Patton, Sr., left in Vir- 

 ginia when he left there. 



" About the year 1814, Daniel Harrison (my 



