l6o HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



animals, tardy in arriving at maturity, others fine both in figure and 

 quality, and most of the cows descended from them proved excellent 

 milkers. Their colors were more or less red, white, and roan, which 

 are true Short-horn colors. 



These accounts are about as accurate and as much to the point as 

 the English traditions relating to the ancient Short-horns, or Tees- 

 waters in their native land, and may be received as a fair basis on 

 which to found the genealogy of all the pedigrees which trace back 

 into the " Patton " blood, and are found recorded in both the English 

 and American Herd Books. We have had accounts of, and have seen 

 many admirable animals of this descent, since crossed with well-bred 

 Short-horn bulls, among the Kentucky and other Western herds, 

 which, aside from their Patton origin, would be considered, by accu- 

 rate breeders, equal in blood and quality to many cattle of later 

 importation and unquestionable descent. 



With this meager and perhaps unsatisfactory narrative, we are 

 obliged to dismiss the Gough and Miller importation, and " Patton 

 stock " of Kentucky. Besides what has been published in the agri- 

 cultural and other papers regarding them, all of which are condensed 

 in the above account, we have had the opportunity of conversing 

 with several aged cattle breeders of the blue-grass region of Ken- 

 tucky more than thirty years ago on the subject, and they clearly 

 corroborated the accounts according to their recollection, as we have 

 given them. A few of these venerable men are still living and have 

 attested to the great excellence of one or more of those bulls as pos- 

 sessing many strikingly good points of the well-bred bulls of the 

 present day. 



VARIOUS OTHER IMPORTATIONS. 



Soon after the last American war with England, in the year 1815, 

 it is stated that Mr. Samuel M. Hopkins, then a resident at Moscow, 

 in the Genesee valley, N. Y., ( imported a Short-horn bull called Mar- 

 quis (408), and a cow called Princess, said to be of the stock of Robert 

 Colling. Mr. Hopkins also, in 1817, brought out a bull, Moscow 

 (9413). A few descendants from these, afterwards crossed by Short- 

 horn bulls from Col. Powel's herd, purchased by the Holland Land 

 Company for the benefit of the settlers on their lands in Western New 

 York, were carefully bred many years at and near Batavia, in Western 

 New York, some of the blood of which is still found in good herds. 



In 1815 or '16 a Mr. Cox, an Englishman, brought into Rensselaer 

 county, near Albany, N. Y., a Short-horn bull and two cows, which 



