HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE LATER SHORT-HORN IMPORTATIONS. 



WE now arrive at a new era in American Short-horns, dating in 

 the year 1833; many of the Kentucky breeders being convinced by 

 a thirty years' trial, first. on the Gough and Miller, or "Patton" 

 stock, and again on the importation of 1817, and their better known 

 successors, that there was a decided improvement in the neat cattle 

 they were rearing, they felt the necessity of still further progress, 

 and also that the material needed should be obtained from a source 

 where the best specimens then existed. The late Mr. Walter Dun, 

 an enterprising Scotch gentleman, residing near Lexington, Ky., in 

 1833, sent out a commission to a friend, Mr. William Douglass, living 

 in the south of Scotland, with ample funds at command, to go into 

 Yorkshire and purchase several Short-horn cattle, the animals to be 

 of the best quality, without regard to any reasonable price to be paid 

 for them. 



The entire correspondence between the parties connected with this 

 transaction has been submitted to us for examination. The instructions 

 were faithfully executed, and six animals sent out in accordance with 

 them. The importation consisted of the bull Symmetry (5382), and 

 cows Caroline, Daisy, Multiflora, Red Rose, and White Rose. The 

 cows are recorded in Vols. 2 and 7, A. H. B. Some of the bulls occur- 

 ring in their pedigrees were not recorded in the English Herd Book 

 at the time of their purchase, but we have carefully examined the 

 original certificates sent to this country wrth, and relating to them. 

 The lineage of that importation, may be found in Vols. 2 to 10, 

 inclusive, of the American Herd Book. There need be no question 

 of the purity of their descent. The cattle were shipped at Liverpool, 

 Eng., September 5, 1833, bound to Philadelphia, Pa., and safely 

 arrived in Kentucky on the 26th November following, where they 

 were heartily welcomed both by the owner and the Short-horn breed- 

 ers generally. They were there bred successfully. Their produce, 

 in the course of years, became widely disseminated, and are now 



