30 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



to give the names of dams if they had names at all. We are to pre- 

 sume,*however, that they were pure Short-horns, as there is no prob- 

 ability of bulls being recorded by the discriminating breeders of the 

 time unless their lineage, as well as forms, was of the best standard ; 

 therefore the purity of their blood may remain unquestioned. 



From all the accounts we have been able to gather, the cows of 

 that day were good milkers, and capable, when retired from breeding, 

 and the dairy, of yielding heavy carcasses of beef. These qualities 

 were, of course, imparted to their descendants, and perpetuated as 

 we find many of them at the present day. 



We note many bulls in the first volume of the English Herd Book 

 that lived anterior to the year 1780, but aside from their names and 

 that of a sire, and sometimes a grandsire, little or nothing seems 

 to have been recorded of their ancestry, and nothing beyond can 

 now be known of them. Among these, in addition to those already 

 named, are Alcock's (Ralph) bull (19), Allison's gray bull (26), Bartle 

 (63), J. Brown's white bull (98), Dalton Duke (188), Danby (190), 

 Davison's bull (192), Dobson's bull (218), Harrison's bull (292) [his 

 record only says, "bred by Mr. Waistell ;" the late Mr. Thomas 

 Bates, in a private note to the record of Harrison's bull, states that 

 he was got by Studley bull (626), dam Mr. Waistell's cow Barforth], 

 Hill's red bull (310), Hollon's bull (313), Hubback (319) [of which 

 more hereafter], Jolly's bull (337) [nothing but his name is recorded], 

 Kitt (357) [nothing but his name is recorded], Ladykirk (355), 

 Manfield (404), Masterman's bull (422) [got by Studley bull], Pad- 

 dock's bull (477), Robson's (William) bull (538), Signior (588), Sir 

 James Pennyman's bull (60 1), Smith's (Jacob) bull (608), Smith's (T.) 

 bull (609), Snowdon's bull (612) [sire of Hubback (319)^ Studley 

 White bull (627) [got by Studley bull (626)], Waistell's bull (669) 

 [the same as Robson's bull (558)], Walker's bull (670) [the same as 

 Masterman's bull (422)]. 



The above named, of the 710 recorded bulls in Vol. i, E. H. B., 

 are all, probably, as near as can be ascertained (of record), that 

 lived previous to, or about the year 1780, and a few years afterwards, 

 and probably a great majority of the pedigrees of the present time, 

 if their lineage could be traced, might run back into the blood of 

 one, or the other, or several of them. 



Of the cows, contemporary with the bulls we have named, few, if 

 any, are recorded in either the first, or subsequent volumes. We 

 can, therefore, only infer that the cows were equally as well and 

 carefully bred as the bulls. Cattle fairs, (not shows, as our modern 



