IV PREFACE. 



The arrangement that has been adopted will be readily under- 

 stood at a glance. A chronological arrangement would have been, 

 in many aspects, exceedingly valuable ; but, on the whole, the 

 alphabetical scheme seemed most likely to be useful. In the body 

 of the book the importers are arranged in alphabetical order, while 

 the index gives an alphabetical list of the animals themselves, with 

 such information concerning them as seemed most needed. It is 

 hoped that by this scheme the matter is presented in the handiest 

 possible shape for actual use. Such animals as seemed, on good 

 evidence, to have been imported, but the history of the importation 

 of which it has been found impossible to obtain, have been classed 

 by themselves at the end of the volume. After them will be found 

 a similar list of such as purport to have been imported, but 

 apparently were not. Some of these pedigrees may have arisen in 

 error, others in fraud; none of them, in the present state of the 

 evidence, can be accepted as true. Their descendants at this late 

 day are, no doubt, Short-horns ; but they cannot be accepted as 

 Short-horns descending from imported ancestry. 



It would be* impracticable to return thanks by name to all who 

 have given me substantial aid in compiling this volume. I must 

 ask the numerous gentlemen who have responded so kindly and 

 promptly to the many questions, and sometimes rather unreasonable 

 demands I have made of them, to permit me to cheaply discharge my 

 debt to them by this general mention. The time may come when I 

 may be able to return their courtesy by a like readiness to give them 

 aid; and I trust I may be enabled then to yield it as readily and as 

 ungrudgingly as they have done to me. Meanwhile, I may be per- 

 mitted to dedicate this book to them, in company with all lovers of 

 Short-horn history and all friends of the Short-horn race. 



WILLIAM WARFIELD. 

 LEXINGTON, KY., April, 1884. 



