184 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



It is difficult at this space of time (now thirty-five years since, with 

 the notices and dates of their arrival only chronicled in the scat- 

 tered agricultural periodicals of the day, and the memories of living 

 men not exact), to enumerate the names of all the animals imported, 

 or the parties owning them from the year 1836 to 1842. It is suffi- 

 cient to say, however, that the importing parties were many, and 

 their animals numerous. The accounts, so far as we have been en- 

 abled to gather them, (but perhaps not in exact chronological order,) 

 will be given. 



About the year 1835 or '36, Mr. Thomas Weddle an Englishman, 

 emigrated with his family from Yorkshire, Eng., into Western New 

 York, and brought with him a dozen or more good Short-horns, all 

 having good pedigrees, and chiefly from the herd of Major Bower, a 

 well-known breeder of Welham, Yorkshire. Among them were the 

 bull Charles (1816) ; Welland 10843^, and one or two others. Among 

 the cows were Crocus, by Romulus (2563); Primrose, by Pioneer 

 (1321); Daisy, by Ebor (3681), and several more. Mr. Weddle bred 

 his herd several years, selling as opportunity presented, at good prices ; 

 yet, not accustomed to the business, he was careless in the records of 

 his herd, and although he had the ability, from the pedigrees of his 

 originals, to perpetuate the genealogy of their increase, the lineage of 

 many of them was irrecoverably lost, or if not entirely so, they could 

 nly be traced to the importation in general terms. In the course of 

 a few years, Mr. Weddle going into other pursuits than farming, his 

 herd was sold and dispersed ; some of them going into Kentucky, 

 and others remaining in New York. 



In the year 1835 or '36, possibly a year or two earlier, Mr. Ezra P. 

 Prentice, of Albany, N. Y., began breeding at his villa farm, near the 

 city, a small herd of Short-horns selected chiefly from the stock of 

 Gen. Van Rensselaer, already noticed. In 1838, '39, '40, '41, he im- 

 ported a number of choice Short-horns from various herds in England. 

 Among them were the bulls Fairfax, 61 (3754); O'Connell, 118; and 

 cows Appolonia, by Albion (2965); Aurora, by William (2839); 

 Catherine, by Sir Robert (5181); Esterville, by Alfred (2987); Flora, 

 by Imperial (2151); Moss Rose, by Barden (1674); Princess, by 

 Henry (4008); Splendor, by Symmetry (2723); Susan, by Dutchman 

 (3669); and Violanta, by Charles (1815). He bred his stock, both 

 of American birth and imported, with great skill and decided suc- 

 cess, selling many animals into New York, and several other States, 

 until the year 1850, when at a public sale he disposed of his entire 

 herd. Mr. Prentice was greatly attached to his stock, but the city 



