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the pedigree of the Shipman heifers, and I refer to him.' Mr. Bates 

 replied, that he well recollected of Mr. Shipman 's selling a heifer to 

 go to America She was called * Mrs. Motte,' after a sister of either 

 Mr. or Mrs. Shipman. Mr. Maynard had a cow by a son of Hubback 

 (319), which cow he called Starling. This cow (Starling) had three 

 daughters. One of these daughters Mr. Maynard kept. One he sold 

 to me (Mr. Bates), and the other he sold to Mr. Shipman, who called 

 her 'Starling,' after her dam, and when he bought her she was in calf 

 to 'Adam' (717). The produce was a heifer, which he called 'Mrs. 

 Motte,' and afterwards sold to Mr. Etches.' As Mr. Bates owned a 

 sister of the dam of Mrs. Motte, he knew her pedigree, and as a sale 

 to go to America was a remarkable thing in that day, the fact made a 

 strong impression on Mr. Bates' mind. See pedigree of ' Young Star- 

 ling,' in page 543, Vol. 2, Coates' Herd Book. Mr. Shipman's 'Star- 

 ling ' (dam of Mrs. Motte), was full sister to on-e of the Starlings 

 named in said pedigree. (Of course her pedigree was the same.) 



" Mrs. Motte 's pedigree thus stands : 



"Mrs. Motte, got by Adam (717), dam Starling, by a son [by 

 Favorite (252)] of Mr. Maynard's old Yellow Favorite (cow); gr. d. 

 by a son of Hubback (319), g. gr. d. by Manfield (404), g. g. gr. d. 

 (Young Strawberry), by Dalton Duke (188). Here this pedigree, at 

 page 543, Vol. 2, ends; but referring, in Vol. i, page 508, to the ped- 

 igree of Young Strawberry, the cow last named above, it will be seen 

 that she goes further back, in carrying out the pedigree of Mrs. 

 Motte, thus : g. g. g. gr. d. Favorite (bred by Mr. Maynard), by Mr. 

 R. Alcock's bull (19). Then, in pedigree of this cow, Favorite, Vol. 

 i, page 308, it will be seen that Mrs. Motte's pedigree continues 

 further back, thus : g. g. g. g. gr. d. by Mr. Jacob Smith's bull (608), 

 g. g. g. g. g. gr. d. by Mr. Jolly's bull (337). There are few, if any, 

 better pedigrees than Mrs. Motte's granting it to be correct in the 

 English Herd Book. 



"As the other two heifers, and the bulls, were purchased in the 

 same neighborhood, and at the same time, it may be inferred, that if 

 their pedigrees were not equal in length, their blood may have been 

 as good. But it is not proposed to argue the question. Facts are 

 submitted. 



" In the succeeding importations, by Mr. Powel, of Philadelphia, 

 some of which found their way into Kentucky, in 1824-^ (the pedi- 

 grees of which were unquestioned), the descendants of the 1817 

 importation were bred to these bulls, and were afterwards bred to 

 the Ohio and Kentucky importations of later years ; and as they have 



