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HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



"Produce of Sylvia, by San Martin (2599), out f Mrs. Motte. 



"Produce of Lady Durham, by San Martin (2599), out of the Durham 



Cow. 



" (A part of the numbers attached to the bulls in the above tables, I have looked 

 up and placed there myself. L. F. A.) 



" Dr. Martin, in a note, adds : ' I have no list of the produce of the Durham 

 Cow's heifer Beauty, by Lafayette, 1755, except one heifer called Beauty, by Prince 

 Regent, 877.' 



" Thus it will be seen that the three imported cows produced thir- 

 teen heifers, besides sundry bulls, and that four of those heifers 

 produced fifteen heifer calves, besides bulls twenty-eight known 

 females. Supposing the eight other heifers (for the ' Smith heifer ' 

 only produced one calf, and that a bull) had produced three heifer 

 calves each, making twenty-four, there would be in the second gen- 

 eration of the imported cows, including 'Beauty, by Prince Regent,' 

 forty breeding cows and those well cultivated in their breeding 

 faculties during their lives, as their liberal proprietors, both in Ken- 

 tucky and Ohio, would be sure to do, we can well imagine that their 

 numbers, at the present time, would swell to an extent much beyond 

 what the pages of the Herd Books represent. 



"Had all the names of the heifer descendants of the 1817 impor- 

 tation been preserved by the breeders of their produce, many of the 

 uncertainties resting upon some of their recorded pedigrees would be 

 explained. The same remarks may be applied to the produce of 

 some other importations of well-bred Short-horns many years ago. 



