THE. KENTUCKY IMPORTATION. l6l 



were placed upon the farm of Mr. Cadwallader Golden. They were 

 there bred for several years, but had no recorded pedigrees. They 

 were afterwards crossed with the later bulls imported in 1822, by a 

 Mr. Wayne, viz. : Comet, 1383, and Nelson, 1914, A. H. B. Some of 

 the descendants of the Cox cows and bulls became the property of 

 Mr. Bullock, of Albany county, which were bred to these bulls, and 

 many good animals sprung from them. These latter were locally 

 called the "Bullock stock." We first saw several of them in the 

 year 1833. They were large, robust animals, good, although not 

 remarkably fine in quality, but compared with others of later impor- 

 tation, true Short-horns. 



"THE KENTUCKY IMPORTATION OF 1817." 



We now come onto fair ground in the introduction of genuine 

 Short-horns in the United States ; and although frequent debates and 

 controversies have occurred touching the purity in blood of the Short- 

 horns of that importation, to a candid mind there can be little doubt 

 of their legitimate descent. The story of their purchase, arrival in 

 Kentucky, and subsequent breeding, has been often told in various 

 publications among others, in the first and second volumes of the 

 American Herd Book ; but as these volumes may not be at the read- 

 er's hand, a full repetition of their history will be given. 



Col. Lewis Sanders, a gentleman of character, position, and engaged 

 in active business, then in the prime of life, lived at Grass Hills, Ky., 

 in the year 1816. We have had the pleasure of his personal acquaint- 

 ance, having first met him about the year 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 and on two or three occasions afterwards the last time in the city 

 of New York, in the winter of 1859-60, he then being upwards of 

 eighty years of age, and a few years previous to his decease. In our 

 first interview he p^icul^rly related the account of his importation 

 of cattle from England into Kentucky in the year 1817, of which we 

 then made a memorandum. Of his truthfulness no one knowing him 

 ever entertained a question. The best and most succinctly written 

 account of that importation was by Mr. Brutus J. Clay, of Bourbon 

 county, Ky., a large farmer, Short-horn cattle breeder, and a gentle- 

 man of unquestionable character, published February i, 1855, in the 

 Ohio Farmer, at Cleveland, Ohio. In prefacing his account Mr. Clay 

 introduces a letter from Col. Sanders to Mr. Edwin G. Bedford, an 

 extensive and experienced Short-horn cattle breeder of Bourbon 

 county, Ky. : 

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