28 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE EARLY BREEDERS DATES AND NAMES OF NOTED 



ANIMALS. 



ARRIVING at a point of time about the year 1750, or a little later, 

 we find the Short-horns a recognized breed, and that great pains had 

 been taken with their cultivation by intelligent landholders, as well 

 as a dissemination of their blood into the hands of enterprising tenant 

 farmers. Such we learn from the records of agricultural writers 

 through the later years of the last century, and the earlier ones of 

 the present. We now proceed to a broader field of operation, and a 

 more intimate discussion of their merits in the possession of breed- 

 ers, by name, as well as of noted animals, then individually known 

 and recorded. 



The field of operation is still the ancient Northumbria, the most 

 active movements are within the counties of York and Durham, in 

 and about the valley of the Tees. From the years 1730 to 1780, 

 many eminent breeders are named, and among them, besides those 

 already mentioned, are Sharter, Pickering, Stephenson, Wetherell, 

 Maynard, Dobison, Charge, Wright, Hutchinson, Robson, Snowdon, 

 Waistell, Richard and William Barker, Brown, Hall, Hill, Best, Wat- 

 son, Baker, Thompson, Jackson, Smith, Jolly, Masterman, Wallace, 

 Robertson, and some others. These names we find as breeders of 

 the earliest cattle whose names and pedigrees are recorded in -the 

 first volume of the English Herd Book. It may be well to know 

 that as this Herd Book was not published until the year 1822, (some 

 thirty to forty years after many of the names we have mentioned had 

 left the stage of active life,) tradition, and the memory of men then 

 living, as well as written records of their predecessors, were the 

 authorities on which the lineage of the earlier animals were admitted 

 to its pages. 



Confining the present relation to a period anterior to the year 1780, 

 the earliest named animal on record is "Studley bull" (26), "red 

 and white, bred by Mr. Sharter, of Chilton." This is all the Herd 

 Book says of him. He was calved in 1737, and of the Barningham 



