SUBSEQUENT NEGLECT OF THEM. 177 



Down to the year, say 1832-3, most of the Short-horn breeders of 

 the States north of Pennsylvania, understanding the importance of 

 true lineage in their stock, had kept correct records of their pedi- 

 grees, and registered many of them in the English Herd Books. 

 Col. Powel had done the same. Yet several parties to whom some 

 of these breeders had sold more or less of their stock, deplorably 

 neglected to keep correct pedigrees of either them or their increase, 

 and through such neglect they were irrecoverably lost. After the 

 first interest in their possession had passed away some of the cows 

 were crossed with mean, or native bulls, their descendants became 

 grades, devoted only to common uses, and ultimately even thorough- 

 bred cows, in common with grades, were fed off and driven to the 

 shambles. 



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