THE KENTUCKY IMPORTATION OF 1817. I/I 



occasional pedigrees or memorandums of which have been hunted up 

 and recorded in the present volume. 



" With these tables of produce of the three cows of the original 

 Kentucky importation in 1817, and some of their heifers, it is to be 

 hoped that those breeders interested in their blood, whose cattle ped- 

 igrees do not trace back, by name> on the dam's side, will be able to 

 substantiate their claim to an undisputed genealogy." 



It will thus be seen that all Short-horns tracing their pedigrees 

 back through well-bred bulls into animals of both sexes named in the 

 foregoing tables, may be called pure Short-horns, admitting that the 

 1817 importation were such. Alluding back to Mr. B. J. Clay's letter 

 from which we have so largely quoted, he remarks : "In 1817 [other 

 accounts say 1818] Mr. James Prentice, of Lexington, Ky., imported 

 two bulls, John Bull, 598^, and Prince Regent, 877, A. H. B., one of 

 the celebrated Durham improved breed, and the other of the im- 

 proved 'Milk ' breed. John Bull was a deep red, fine size, good form, 

 with delicate down-pointed horns. Prince Regent was pied, white, 

 with some red spots. They were purchased by Nathaniel Hart, of 

 Woodford, and John Hart, of Fayette counties, for $1,500, and pro- 

 duced some good stock." 



These bulls were considered good Short-horns, but like the impor- 

 tation of 1817, they had no written pedigrees. Many excellent Herd 

 Book animals now trace their genealogy into John Bull and Prince 

 Regent, of the Prentice importation. 



Those pedigrees which trace through well-bred bulls since the 

 Gough and Miller importation, or Patton tribe, may have a slight 

 fraction of unknown blood ; but it may possibly be doubted whether 

 they now have more outside blood in their composition than some 

 other Short-horns of English birth and Herd Book pedigrees which 

 have since been imported. 



Av^^mtiMated, there may be some trivial errors in the foregoing 

 accounts of the early Kentucky Short-horn herds, caused by the 

 various sources from which they are derived, but in the main they 

 may be considered correct. Many years ago, between 1830 and 

 1840, a committee for the purpose of compiling and issuing a Short- 

 horn Herd Book in Kentucky was appointed, consisting of the late 

 Messrs. Benjamin Warfield of Fayette, Samuel D. Martin of Clark, 

 and Robert W. Scott of Franklin counties the two last mentioned 

 still living. They obtained probably all the information then in 

 existence relative to the subject in hand. We understood that Dr. 

 Martin was charged with the possession of the documentary matter 



