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males and females were bred to some extent among themselves, and 

 that the bulls were also bred upon the common cows in the places 

 where they were kept. In 1796 it is further stated that Mr. Heaton 

 went again to England and brought out a bull and cow which he 

 bought from one of the brothers Colling and took them to his farm in 

 Westchester county, N. Y., where he then resided. It may be sup- 

 posed that the Short-horns which he had previously imported had 

 been taken to that place also, but of the fact we have no verified 

 account. 



What finally became of the animals and their produce which Heaton 

 brought out, nothing definite is known, only that some superior cattle 

 were many years kept and known in Westchester county, N. Y., after 

 the present century came in, but no pedigrees of them have been 

 traced except in one or two instances through "Brisbane's bull," 

 which was purchased of Mr. Heaton by the late Mr. James Brisbane, 

 of Batavia, N. Y., and brought there by him in the early years of this 

 century. The bull left much valuable stock in the vicinity of Batavia, 

 and was supposed to be a thorough-bred Short-horn. Of the Heaton 

 stock, retained in the vicinity of New York, nothing further is cer- 

 tainly known. It is altogether probable that the people of that 

 vicinity knowing little of either breeds, or blood cattle in those days, 

 let the stock " run out," and they became lost in the common herds 

 of the country. 



THE GOUGH (OR GOFF) AND MILLER IMPORTATIONS OF THE LAST 



CENTURY. 



We now enter on debatable ground a subject which has elicited 

 more controversy touching the blood of early American Short-horns 

 than any other which has arisen in this country for the past fifty 

 years by those interested, and the animals of whose herds have been 

 more directly or remotely related to them. We do not suppose that 

 anything we may introduce by way of testimony will decide the 

 question to any exact degree of certainty. Yet the facts connected 

 with them are important to be known by all Short-horn breeders who 

 *ake an interest in the matter ; and from them every reader may draw 

 his own conclusions. We do not propose to settle any question of 

 blood by what we may submit, but simply to relate history so far as 

 we have been able, by diligent search, to ascertain it. 



There have been several published accounts of these early impor- 

 tations, differing somewhat in date, which is of little consequence ; 



