THE SHORTHORN 



225 



Ohio Company's Importations of 1834. 



Of D ARLINGTON: 



A ROAN BULL, CALVED APRIL, 4, 1833. 



(Bred bj Thomas Bates, Esq.) 

 PHTttGREE, per Ctnlfcate M fouarim of F. REfflCK, Agent 



Got bj Belridier; dam, Trin- 

 ket, bj Sjmetry (643$;) grand 

 dam, do. by Jupiter [342;] gr. 

 grand dam, do. by Phenome- 

 non [491;] gr. gr. grand dam 

 Tragedy by Favorite [252;] 

 gr. gr. gr. grand dam, Tra- 

 gedy by Punch [531.] 



The EARL OF DARLINGTON 

 descended from the cow that took the 

 first premium ever awarded by the Ag- 

 ricultural Society at Darlington, Dur- 

 ham county, England. 



See Herd-Book, 



although later numerous other companies were organized in the 

 Middle West for the importation and promotion of the breed. 



The char- 

 acteristics of 

 the Short- 

 horn. Having 

 traced briefly 

 the influences 

 that have sur- 

 rounded the 

 development 

 of the Short- 

 horn breed, a 

 consideration 

 of its charac- 

 teristics will 

 now be appro- 

 priate. The 

 general con- 

 formation of 

 the Shorthorn 

 adheres close- 

 ly to the beef 

 type, though 

 certain tribes, 

 the Bates bred 

 in particular, 

 have so strong 

 a tendency to 

 the produc- 

 tion of milk as 

 to be spoken 

 of as general- 

 purpose cattle. 

 The follow- 

 ing points es- 

 pecially apply to 

 paratively small 



FIG. 88. Copy of the pedigree of the Earl of Darlington, in 

 the po'ssession of the author, published by the Ohio Importing 

 Company about 1835. This is no doubt a copy of one of the 

 first pedigrees printed in America. By courtesy of Mr. O. V. 

 Hegler, Fayette County, Ohio, whose grandfather was one of 

 the original stockholders of the Ohio Importing Company 



the cow : The horn is variable, but is always com- 

 and short and preferably curves forward, with the 



